Resource library

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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.

The Senate agreed, on 14 November 1994, to a motion by Senator Harradine requiring that each Minister table indexed lists of file titles created by Central Offices of each department or agency he or she administers.

This handbook provides nationally consistent guidance on laboratory reporting processes for CARAlert.

The quality statements for the Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard are based on best available evidence and guideline recommendations at the time of development. This summary describes the relevance of each evidence source to the quality statements.

The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights was reviewed over two phases. This report describes the consultation process undertaken during Phase 2 of the review.

Senate Order 13 (SO13), known as Murray Motion, requires that, twice a year, Commonwealth entities publish details of individual contracts with a total value of $100,000 (GST inclusive) or more, which meets specific date requirements (during the reporting period).

A template for collecting information about rapid response cases. 

This audit tool supports the collection of data for several quality improvement measures.

This report draws on data from a wide range of sources, and includes information about key advances in safety and quality in Australia; prevalence of common safety risks to patients; action taken to identify and drive the delivery of appropriate care; and the Commission’s approach to supporting value based healthcare.

The analysis and data provided in this report are limited to public hospitals. The Commission is currently working with the private hospital sector to ensure the specified safety and quality indicators can be included in future reporting.

A survey to gather information from health professionals about the most important information to include in a comprehensive care plan.

A comprehensive care plan is a document describing agreed goals of care, and outlining planned medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health activities for a patient.

This Preliminary Report highlights the baseline activities being undertaken across Australia in regard to AMR and AU before the implementation of the Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA) Project.

Consultation on this discussion paper closed 5 July 2019.

2017 report.

The list of AHR conditions and associated time intervals are maintained by the Commission, with updates to reflect the latest ICD-10-AM edition codes as they are released by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority.

This report describes the development of a model to monitor the national prevalence of CDI in Australian health service organisations.