Information for clinicians about the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard.
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The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements describing the care that should be received by patients aged 16 years and over who present with low back pain, with or without leg pain.
It may be applied in all healthcare settings where such care is provided, but is particularly relevant to primary healthcare services and emergency departments.
This clinical care standard aims to improve the recognition of anaphylaxis, and the provision of appropriate treatment and follow-up care.
People receiving care have a unique perspective on the day-to-day running of a health service and how this affects them. Patient experience captures the events and experiences relevant to patients in health care, and how often it happens.
Knee osteoarthritis affects 1.2 million Australians and has a high burden on people living with this chronic condition, and on the healthcare system.
The Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians and healthcare services on managing knee osteoarthritis. The revised standard was released on 15 August 2024.
Keynote speakers that presented at National Medicine Symposium 2023.
Hand hygiene compliance auditing is conducted to assess the effectiveness of hand hygiene programs in Australia, as part of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI). Hand hygiene compliance is assessed across both public and private Australian hospitals, consistent with AHMAC endorsed benchmark of 80 per cent.
The Commission has developed resources to assist health service organisations align their patient safety and quality improvement programs using the framework of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.
Accreditation provides a commitment to the community that a diagnostic imaging practice meets expected standards for safety and quality. It is a formal program where trained assessors review an imaging practice’s evidence of implementation of the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme Standards.
Imaging practices not accredited under the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme cannot provide Medicare funded diagnostic imaging services. Unaccredited imaging practices must inform clients prior to carrying out imaging they are not accredited and a Medicare benefit is not payable.
Learning about patients’ experiences can help hospitals and healthcare services to identify how and where they need to make improvements in the safety and quality of the health care they provide.
The Commission is developing a Clinical Care Standard on Emergency Laparotomy to drive quality improvement in care processes and outcomes for people undergoing emergency laparotomy in Australia.
Indicators have been developed to support monitoring of the care recommended in the Standard. Clinicians and healthcare services can use the indicators to support local quality improvement activity.
This clinical care standard aims to improve the prevention of delirium in patients at risk – and the early diagnosis and treatment of patients with delirium.
The Commission has developed a range of tools and resources to help health service organisations deliver comprehensive care in alignment with the Comprehensive Care Standard.
Guidance for clinicians on the ten quality statements from the COPD Clinical Care Standard, as well as helpful resources.
More than 900,000 colonoscopies are performed in Australia annually. The Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard describes the safe, appropriate and high-quality use of colonoscopy.
The Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians, healthcare services and consumers on the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines.
This national standard was released by the Commission on 9 May 2024.
This clinical care standard describes best practice care for using peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) - also known as 'cannulas'. It describes how to use PIVCs wisely to preserve vessel health and improve patient outcomes and experience for one of the most common procedures in Australia.
This National Standard describes best practice care for the prevention, recognition and management of third and fourth degree perineal tears.