Resource library

Reviewing the delivery of comprehensive care is important for ensuring patients are receiving care that meets their clinical and personal needs; that risks are efficiently and effectively identified and mitigated; that the agreed comprehensive care plan is achieving what it aimed to do; and that patients' goals and expectations are being met.

A classification system to assist with the assessment of the consequences and scale (or magnitude) of EMM-related adverse events and incidents. The classification also rates the potential and actual harm associated with these events.

A classification system for problems associated with the use of health IT systems, developed by Magrabi and colleagues. it was developed by examining 'natural categories' of problems described in incidents from a range of health care settings in Australia, the USA and England. 

Electronic Medication Management Systems: A guide to safe implementation (3rd edition) has been produced by the Commission to assist hospitals and health service organisations to safely implement electronic medication management (EMM) systems.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) sought feedback on the draft National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Aged Care Module.  This module has been developed to allow organisations to meet the requirements of both the NSQHS Standards and the Aged Care Quality (ACQ) Standards by assessment to one set of standards. Consultation is now closed.

Guidance for hospitals on classifying electronic medication management (EMM)-related adverse events and incidents (The Guidance).

The Guidance supports the classification of EMM-related adverse events and incidents, and assists with assessing and classifying the scale and consequence of actual or potential harm.

This guide aims to provide ED clinicians with essential information about the features and capability of My Health Record.

A classification system for prescribing and medicine administration adverse events and incidents based on a system developed by Westbrook and colleagues and informed by a medication incident taxonomy developed in Victoria.

To outline the principles and process for recognising exemplar practice in health service organisations that have been assessed to the NSQHS Standards (second edition).

This analysis plan is designed to assist sites who have undertaken the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s end-of-life care audit and clinician surveys.

The Commission has identified a set of six essential elements for comprehensive care delivery, which represent different stages or processes that a patient may experience when clinical care is delivered.

The National guidelines for on-screen presentation of discharge summaries specify the sequence, layout and format of the core elements of hospital discharge summaries, as displayed in clinical information systems.

These guidelines are intended for those developing, assessing, procuring and implementing IT systems for medication management and electronic prescribing to:

• Understand how design contributes to patient safety
• Apply the recommendations during software development and iteration
• Evaluate systems during procurement

This guide explains what the 10 elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care mean for you as a patient, and for families, carers and consumers.

The purpose of this guide is to provide practical guidance for managers and practitioners responsible for credentialing, and for determining and managing, a health practitioner’s scope of clinical practice. This is an ancillary guide only. It does not replace or supersede state, territory or organisational policies on credentialing.

A guide to support implementation of the National Consensus Statement