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2018 Report.

This week’s issue includes items on bias in health care, Clostridium difficile/Clostridioides difficile, the National Hand Hygiene Initiative, dementia, medication reviews, patient and family engagement, intrapartem care, reporting safety concerns, antimicrobial stewardship and more.

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

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 logo has been developed for World AMR Awareness Week for use for purposes such as branding for resources, social media or email signatures.

These versions of the WAAW quizzes provide the questions for activities with clinicians and consumers during World AMR Awareness Week.

This document provides the answers to the clinician and consumer quizzes that can be used for activities to promote World AMR Awareness Week.

This resource is to support clinicians and health service organisations with ideas for local World AMR Awareness Week activities. It is most suitable for the acute care environment, but could be adapted for primary care settings.

This planning resource is designed to support clinicians preparing for Antimicrobial Awareness Week; it is most suitable for the acute care environment but could be adapted for primary care settings.

This PowerPoint resource provides health service organisations and clinicians with a range of information to support the preparation of presentations for World AMR Awareness Week 2024.

This week’s issue includes items on the draft Severe Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard, pressure injuries, diagnostic error, antibiotic over-prescribing, guidelines, sepsis, training and more.

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).

Presented in September 2018

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.

This report presents analyses of data on infections and antimicrobial use in residents of 407 Australian aged care homes and multi-purpose services (aged care facilities) that contributed to the 2018 Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (AC NAPS). 

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.