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This week’s issue includes items on healthcare quality, an Aboriginal Cultural Safety and Security Framework, innovation, major health care challenges, accreditation and more.

Also covered are new issues of Public Health Research & Practice and Healthcare Quarterly, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s NICE.

This brochure forms part of the Commission's consumer resources to enhance understanding of antimicrobial resistance and support the safe and quality use of antimicrobials.

The National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) collects data on nationally agreed priority organisms with critical resistance to last-line antimicrobial agents.

This week’s issue includes items on the second edition of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights, a draft Peripheral Venous Access Clinical Care Standard, antimicrobial resistance, infections, prescribing, digital health and more

Also covered are new issues of the Australian Health Review and Health Affairs, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s NICE.

This week’s issue includes items on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial prescribing, burnout, value, diagnostic errors, culture, medication safety, electronic prescribing and medicines administration and discharge and more.

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and Pediatric Quality & Safety, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

This week’s issue includes items on surgical volume and quality, antimicrobial stewardship, pressure injuries, patient experience, patient-centred care quality indicators, just culture, Vitamin D and more

Also covered are new issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s NICE.

This week’s issue includes items on the draft Severe Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard, integrated care, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, whistleblowers, the “weekend effect” and more.

2018 Report.

This week’s issue includes items on health equity, pharmacy, e-health, emergency admissions, data sharing, health prevention, obesity, longevity, surgical mortality, antimicrobial stewardship, burnout and more

Also covered are new issues of Public Health Research & Practice, the Australian Journal of Primary Health and the Future Leaders Communiqué, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s NICE.

This specification provides a guide for health service organisations to develop local cumulative antibiograms, using summary antimicrobial susceptibility tables. Cumulative antibiograms assist antimicrobial stewardship programs in the development of local antimicrobial prescribing guidelines and formulary management.

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive bacillus typically associated with gastrointestinal disease. Transmission of C. difficile occurs by ingestion of spores either through person-to-person contact, animal-to-person contact or environment-to-person contact.

Third Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health.