A literature review to better understand the use of antipsychotic medicines for people aged 65 years and over.

The HACs are identified using a combination of ICD-10-AM codes to identify the diagnosis and the condition onset flag (METeOR identifier: 354816) to indicate that the diagnosis occurred during the episode of admitted patient care. Some HACs also require other codes to define the complication such as procedure and external cause codes.

This report summarises research and analysis conducted by the Commission to examine health outcomes for people with cognitive impairment admitted to public hospitals in Australia. The Commission presented a summary of its key findings at the 2023 IHACPA Conference.

This issue includes items on artificial intelligence (AI), patient experience, sentinel events, productivity, hospital-acquired complications (HACs), and more. Along with the latest from Australian Prescriber, Healthcare Quarterly, Patient Experience Journal, Nursing Leadership, BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for...

On 9 September 2021, the Commission released the updated Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021).