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    • National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards
      • Implementation of the NSQHS Standards
        • NSQHS Standards updates and consultations
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        • NSQHS Standards (first edition) for private dental practices
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        • Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme
        • Preparing for an assessment to the NSQHS Standards
        • State and territory health department contact details
        • Approved accrediting agencies contact details
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        • Exemplar practice
        • Interim accreditation for new health service organisations
        • Information for accrediting agencies
      • Resources for the NSQHS Standards
        • NSQHS Standards orientation course
        • Request for NSQHS Standards logo and icons
        • Request for NSQHS Standards commercial design files
        • User Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
          • Action 1.2: Addressing health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
          • Action 1.4: Implementing and monitoring targeted strategies
          • Action 1.21: Improving cultural competency
          • Action 1.33: Welcoming environments
          • Action 2.13: Working in partnership
          • Action 5.8: Identifying people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin
      • Safety and Quality Advice Centre
      • NSQHS Standards submissions, requests and extensions
      • Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module
      • Climate Risk Module
      • Clinical Governance Standard
        • Governance, leadership and culture
          • Action 1.01
          • Action 1.02
          • Action 1.03
          • Action 1.04
          • Action 1.05
          • Action 1.06
        • Patient safety and quality systems
          • Action 1.07
          • Action 1.08
          • Action 1.09
          • Action 1.10
          • Action 1.11
          • Action 1.12
          • Action 1.13
          • Action 1.14
          • Action 1.15
          • Action 1.16
          • Action 1.17
          • Action 1.18
        • Clinical performance and effectiveness
          • Action 1.19
          • Action 1.20
          • Action 1.21
          • Action 1.22
          • Action 1.23
          • Action 1.24
          • Action 1.25
          • Action 1.26
          • Action 1.27
          • Action 1.28
        • Safe environment for the delivery of care
          • Action 1.29
          • Action 1.30
          • Action 1.31
          • Action 1.32
          • Action 1.33
      • Partnering with Consumers Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement systems to support partnering with consumers
          • Action 2.1
          • Action 2.2
        • Partnering with patients in their own care
          • Action 2.3
          • Action 2.4
          • Action 2.5
          • Action 2.6
          • Action 2.7
        • Health literacy
          • Action 2.8
          • Action 2.9
          • Action 2.10
        • Partnering with consumers in organisational design and governance
          • Action 2.11
          • Action 2.12
          • Action 2.13
          • Action 2.14
      • Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections
          • Action 3.1
          • Action 3.2
          • Action 3.3
          • Action 3.4
        • Infection prevention and control systems
          • HAI surveillance
          • Action 3.5
          • Action 3.6
          • Action 3.7
          • Action 3.8
          • Action 3.9
          • Action 3.10
          • Action 3.11
          • Action 3.12
          • Action 3.13
        • Reprocessing of reusable medical devices
          • Action 3.14
        • Antimicrobial stewardship
          • Action 3.15
          • Action 3.16
      • Medication Safety Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to support medication management
          • Action 4.1
          • Action 4.2
          • Action 4.3
          • Action 4.4
        • Documentation of patient information
          • Action 4.5
          • Action 4.6
          • Action 4.7
          • Action 4.8
          • Action 4.9
        • Continuity of medication management
          • Action 4.10
          • Action 4.11
          • Action 4.12
        • Medication management processes
          • Action 4.13
          • Action 4.14
          • Action 4.15
      • Comprehensive Care Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to support comprehensive care
          • Action 5.1
          • Action 5.2
          • Action 5.3
          • Action 5.4
          • Action 5.5
          • Action 5.6
        • Developing the comprehensive care plan
          • Action 5.7
          • Action 5.8
          • Action 5.9
          • Action 5.10
          • Action 5.11
          • Action 5.12
          • Action 5.13
        • Delivering comprehensive care
          • Action 5.14
          • Action 5.15
          • Action 5.16
          • Action 5.17
          • Action 5.18
          • Action 5.19
          • Action 5.20
        • Minimising patient harm
          • Action 5.21
          • Action 5.22
          • Action 5.23
          • Action 5.24
          • Action 5.25
          • Action 5.26
          • Action 5.27
          • Action 5.28
          • Action 5.29
          • Action 5.30
          • Action 5.31
          • Action 5.32
          • Action 5.33
          • Action 5.34
          • Action 5.35
          • Action 5.36
      • Communicating for Safety Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to support effective communication
          • Action 6.1
          • Action 6.2
          • Action 6.3
          • Action 6.4
        • Correct identification and procedure matching
          • Action 6.5
          • Action 6.6
        • Communication at clinical handover
          • Action 6.7
          • Action 6.8
        • Communication of critical information
          • Action 6.9
          • Action 6.10
        • Documentation of information
          • Action 6.11
      • Blood Management Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to support blood management
          • Action 7.1
          • Action 7.2
          • Action 7.3
        • Prescribing and clinical use of blood and blood products
          • Action 7.4
          • Action 7.5
          • Action 7.6
          • Action 7.7
          • Action 7.8
        • Managing the availability and safety of blood and blood products
          • Action 7.9
          • Action 7.10
        • The National Patient Blood Management Collaborative
          • What is a Collaborative?
          • What is patient blood management?
          • NPBMC resources
          • NPBMC showcase
          • NPBMC news
          • EOI and successful sites
          • Frequently asked questions
      • Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration Standard
        • Clinical governance and quality improvement to support recognition and response systems
          • Action 8.1
          • Action 8.2
          • Action 8.3
        • Detecting and recognising acute deterioration, and escalating care
          • Action 8.4
          • Action 8.5
          • Action 8.6
          • Action 8.7
          • Action 8.8
          • Action 8.9
        • Responding to acute deterioration
          • Action 8.10
          • Action 8.11
          • Action 8.12
          • Action 8.13
    • National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards
      • Frequently asked questions from the launch
      • Background - Development of the primary and community healthcare standards
    • Clinical Care Standards
      • About the Clinical Care Standards
        • Principles of care
      • Current consultations
      • Printed resources - Clinical Care Standards
      • Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard
        • Launch of anaphylaxis standard
        • Info for consumers
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • Quality Statements
          • 1. Prompt recognition of anaphylaxis
          • 2. Immediate injection of IM adrenaline
          • 3. Correct patient positioning
          • 4. Access to a personal adrenaline injector in all healthcare settings
          • 5. Observation time following anaphylaxis
          • 6. Discharge management and documentation
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements and Topic Working Group
      • Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Care Standard
        • Project Information
        • Quality Statements
          • 1. Immediate management
          • 2. Early assessment
          • 3. Timely reperfusion
          • 4. Risk stratification
          • 5. Coronary angiography
          • 6. Individualised care plan
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements
      • Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard
        • Project Information
        • Endorsements
      • Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard
        • Info for consumers
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • Webinar for health professionals
        • Quality Statements
          • 1. Life-threatening conditions
          • 2. Use of guidelines
          • 3. Adverse reactions to antimicrobials
          • 4. Microbiological testing
          • 5. Patient information and shared decision making
          • 6. Documentation
          • 7. Review of therapy
          • 8. Surgical and procedural prophylaxis
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements
        • Indicator Monitoring Tool
        • Other resources
      • Cataract Clinical Care Standard
        • Quality statements
          • Primary care assessment and referral
          • Patient information and shared decision making
          • Access to ophthalmology assessment
          • Indications for cataract surgery
          • Prioritisation for cataract surgery
          • Second-eye surgery
          • Preventive eye medicines
          • Postoperative care
        • Indicators
        • Case studies
        • Endorsements and Working Group
      • Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard
        • Consumers - what you need to know
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • Why this is needed
          • Background
          • Topic working group and endorsements
          • Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard pilot project
        • Quality Statements
          • 1. Initial assessment and referral
          • 2. Appropriate and timely colonoscopy
          • 3. Informed decision making and consent
          • 4. Bowel preparation
          • 5. Sedation
          • 6. Clinicians
          • 7. Procedure
          • 8. Discharge
          • 9. Reporting and follow‑up
        • Indicators
        • Webinars for health professionals
        • Info for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
        • Bowel Cancer Prevention Resources
      • Delirium Clinical Care Standard
        • Info for consumers
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • DECLARED 2021 conference presentations
        • Quality statements
          • Quality statement 1
          • Quality statement 2
          • Quality statement 3
          • Quality statement 4
          • Quality statement 5
          • Quality statement 6
          • Quality statement 7
          • Quality statement 8
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements and Working Group
      • Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard
        • Project Information
        • Endorsements
      • Hip Fracture Care Clinical Care Standard
        • Project Information
      • Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard
      • Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard
        • Info for consumers
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • Quality statements
          • Quality statement 1
          • Quality statement 2
          • Quality statement 3
          • Quality statement 4
          • Quality statement 5
          • Quality statement 6
          • Quality statement 7
          • Quality statement 8
          • Quality statement 9
          • Quality statement 10
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements and Working Group
      • Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in acute pain Clinical Care Standard
      • Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard
        • Project Information
        • Endorsements
      • Sepsis Clinical Care Standard
      • Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard
      • Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears
        • Info for women
        • Info for clinicians
        • Info for health service organisations
        • Quality Statements
          • Information, shared decision making and informed consent
          • Reducing risk during pregnancy, labour and birth
          • Instrumental vaginal birth
          • Identifying third and fourth degree perineal tears
          • Repairing third and fourth degree perineal tears
          • Postoperative care
          • Follow-up care post-discharge
        • Indicators
        • Endorsements and Working Group
      • Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard
        • Endorsements and Working Group
    • National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards
      • Clinical and Technical Governance Standard
      • Partnering with Consumers Standard
      • Model of Care Standard
    • Clinical Trials Services
      • National Clinical Trials Governance Framework Steering Committee
      • Pilot of the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework
    • Diagnostic Imaging Practice Standards
    • Pathology Accreditation Standards
  • Our work
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    • Accreditation
      • Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme
      • The National General Practice Accreditation Scheme
      • Diagnostic Imaging
        • Diagnostic Imaging Practice Standards
        • National Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme
      • National Pathology Accreditation Scheme
        • About the pathology accreditation standards
        • Resources for the pathology standards
        • Contact an approved pathology accrediting agency
    • Antimicrobial resistance
      • Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia Surveillance System (AURA)
        • About AURA
        • What is Australia doing to address AMR?
        • Community Antimicrobial Use
        • Aged Care Antimicrobial prescribing and infections
        • Community Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Australian passive AMR surveillance (APAS)
            • APAS Reports
          • Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)
        • Hospital Antimicrobial Use
          • Appropriateness of antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals
          • Volume of antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals
        • Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Australian passive AMR surveillance (APAS)
          • Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)
          • Cumulative hospital-level antibiogram
        • AURA 2021
        • AURA 2019
        • AURA 2017
        • AURA 2016
        • AURA resources
        • National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances: CARAlert
        • Program Partners
          • NAPS
          • NAUSP
          • AGAR
        • Other Publications
        • Information for Consumers
      • Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard
    • Antimicrobial stewardship
      • Antimicrobial Stewardship in Australian Health Care 2018
      • Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard
      • Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard
      • Antimicrobial stewardship in primary care
      • Antimicrobial stewardship in aged care
      • Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis
      • AMS model formulary
      • Antimicrobial prescribing e-learning modules
      • Antimicrobial Stewardship resources and links
      • Antimicrobial Awareness Week
        • Antimicrobial Awareness Week resources
      • CPMC and Commission Joint Statement
    • Clinical governance
      • Credentialing of clinicians
      • Open disclosure
        • Australian Open Disclosure Framework
          • Review of the Open Disclosure Standard
        • Implementing the Open Disclosure Framework
          • Resources for clinicians and healthcare providers
          • Resources for consumers
          • Resources for health service organisations
        • Open disclosure projects
          • Legal aspects of open disclosure
          • Views and Experience of patients, families and support people on open disclosure
          • Supporting healthcare providers
      • National Model Clinical Governance Framework
        • Clinical Governance Framework: Governance, leadership and culture
        • Clinical Governance Framework: Patient safety and quality improvement systems
        • Clinical Governance Framework: Clinical performance and effectiveness
        • Clinical Governance Framework: Safe environment for the delivery of care
        • Clinical Governance Framework: Partnering with consumers
      • Clinical Governance Standard
    • Clinical Care Standards
    • Clinical trials
    • Cognitive impairment
      • About cognitive impairment
      • Cognitive impairment in the NSQHS Standards
      • Share Your Story
      • Intellectual disability consultation
      • Cognitive impairment resources
      • Cognitive impairment and COVID-19
      • Reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotics
    • Communicating for safety
      • Communicating for Safety Resource Portal
      • Clinical handover
        • Implementation Toolkit for Clinical Handover Improvement
          • National Clinical Handover Initiative Pilot Program resources
        • Ossie Guide to Clinical Handover
        • National Clinical Handover Initiative Pilot Program
        • Electronic discharge summary (EDS) systems
      • Patient-clinician communication
      • Patient identification
        • Specification for a standard patient identification band
        • Patient / procedure matching protocols
          • Surgical safety checklist
          • Correct patient, correct site, correct procedure protocol
          • Correct patient, correct site, correct procedure protocol for other clinical areas
      • Resources
      • Communicating for Safety Standard
    • Comprehensive care
      • Share your comprehensive care story
      • Conceptual model
      • Essential elements for Comprehensive Care
        • Essential element 1
        • Essential element 2
        • Essential element 3
        • Essential element 4
        • Essential element 5
        • Essential element 6
      • End-of-life care
      • Comprehensive care FAQs
      • Supportive resources
      • Related topics
        • Falls prevention
        • Pressure injuries
      • Comprehensive Care Standard
    • e-Health safety
      • Electronic discharge summary (EDS) systems
      • My Health Record clinical safety program
      • My Health Record in Emergency Departments Project
      • Clinicians' Guide to My Health Record in ED
        • About My Health Record
        • Benefits of using My Health Record
        • What you'll find in My Health Record
        • Accessing My Health Record
        • Protecting consumers and vulnerable groups
        • Frequently Asked Questions
        • Tools and resources
        • Help promote the guide
        • Resources from other organisations
        • Acknowledgements
      • National Guidelines for On-Screen Display of Medicines Information
      • Safety Issues at Transitions of Care: Pain points relating to clinical systems
    • End-of-life care
      • End-of-Life Audit Toolkit
        • How do I run an audit?
        • How do I analyse the data?
        • How do I use the data?
        • End-of-life audit tools
      • End-of-life care consensus statement
      • Paediatrics end-of-life care consensus statement
      • End-of-life care external resources
      • Information for consumers
      • Tools and resources for health services
    • Health and Human Research
      • Clinical Quality Registries
      • The National One Stop Shop - a national platform for health and human research
        • Health and Medical Research Advisory Group
      • National Clinical Trials Governance Framework
      • Australian Unique Device Identifier Framework
    • Health conditions and treatments
      • CT scans for kids
        • Public Summary Report
        • What are CT scans and why are children sensitive to them?
        • Resources
      • Transvaginal mesh
        • Resources
        • Senate inquiry
        • States, territories and private health services
        • Useful links
        • Consumer forums
    • Healthcare variation
      • Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation series
      • Atlas 2021
        • About the Atlas
        • Overview
        • How to interpret the data
        • Using the interactive Atlas
        • 1. Early planned births
          • 1.1 Early planned births without medical or obstetric indication
        • 2. Chronic disease and infection
          • 2.1 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
          • 2.2 Heart failure
          • 2.3 Diabetes complications
          • 2.4 Kidney infections and urinary tract infections
          • 2.5 Cellulitis hospitalisations
        • 3. Children's ear, nose and throat surgery
          • 3.1 Tonsillectomy hospitalisations, 17 years and under
          • 3.2 Myringotomy hospitalisations, 17 years and under
        • 4. Lumbar spinal surgery
          • 4.1 Lumbar spinal fusion, 18 years and over
          • 4.2 Lumbar spinal decompression excluding fusion, 18 years and over
        • 5. Gastrointestinal investigations
          • 5.1 Gastroscopy MBS services, 18-54 years
          • 5.2 Repeat colonoscopy MBS services, all ages
          • 5.3 Repeat gastroscopy MBS services, all ages
        • 6. Medicines use in older people
          • 6.1 Polypharmacy, 75 years and over
          • 6.2 Medication management reviews, 75 years and older
          • 6.3 Proton pump inhibitor medicines dispensing, 75 years and over
        • General recommendations
        • State and Territory summaries
        • Resources
        • Acknowledgements
        • Download the Atlas
      • Atlas 2018
        • How to interpret the data
        • 1. Neonatal and paediatric health
          • 1.1 Early planned caesarean section without medical or obstetric indication
          • 1.2 Antibiotics dispensing in children, 9 years and under
          • 1.3 Proton pump inhibitor medicines dispensing, 1 year and under
        • 2. Gastrointestinal investigations and treatments
          • 2.1 Colonoscopy hospitalisations, all ages
          • 2.2 Gastroscopy hospitalisations, all ages
          • 2.3 Proton Pump Inhibitor medicines dispensing, 18 years and over
        • 3. Thyroid investigations and treatments
          • 3.1 Thyroid function testing, 18 years and over
          • 3.2 Neck ultrasound and thyroidectomy, 18 years and over
        • 4. Cardiac tests
          • 4.1 Cardiac stress tests and imaging, 18 years and over
          • 4.2 Stress echocardiography, 18 years and over
          • 4.3 Myocardial perfusion scans, 18 years and over
          • 4.4 Standard echocardiography, 18 years and over
        • 5. Repeat analyses
          • 5.1 Antimicrobial medicines dispensing, all ages
          • 5.2 Amoxicillin and amoxicillin clavulanate dispensing, all ages
          • 5.3 Antipsychotic medicines dispensing, 17 years and under
          • 5.4 Antipsychotic medicines dispensing, 18-64 years
          • 5.5 Antipsychotic medicines dispensing, 65 years and over
          • 5.6 ADHD medicines dispensing, 17 years and under
          • 5.7 Opioid medicines dispensing, all ages
        • 6. Response to the Atlas series
        • General recommendations
        • State and Territory summaries
        • Resources
        • Download the Atlas
      • Atlas 2017
        • Overview
        • How to interpret the data
        • 1. Chronic disease and infection: potentially preventable hospitalisations
        • 2. Cardiovascular conditions
        • 3. Women's health and maternity
        • 4. Surgical interventions
        • General recommendations
        • Resources
        • Download the Atlas
      • Atlas 2015
        • Overview
        • How to interpret the data
        • 1. Antimicrobial dispensing
        • 2. Diagnostic interventions
        • 3. Surgical interventions
        • 4. Interventions for mental health and psychotropic medicines
        • 5. Opioid medicines
        • 6. Interventions for chronic disease
        • General recommendations
        • Resources
        • Download the Atlas
      • Atlas series data
      • Better Care Everywhere - Program Series
        • Steering Committee
      • Development and consultation
        • Atlas 2015 - Expert advisors
        • Atlas 2017 - Expert advisors
        • Atlas 2018 - Expert advisors
      • Surgery
      • Maternity and Women's Health
      • Medicines dispensing
      • Hospital admissions
      • Investigations
      • Chronic conditions
      • Antimicrobial medicines dispensing
    • Healthcare-associated infections
      • HAI Surveillance
        • SABSI
        • CLABSI
        • Clostridium difficile infection
        • Surgical site infections
      • Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard
    • Indicators, measurement and reporting
      • Clinical quality registries
        • Operating principles and technical standards
      • Patient safety reporting
      • Pricing and funding
      • Mortality
        • Core Hospital-Based Outcome Indicators
      • Complications
        • HACs information kit
        • HACs groupers
        • HACs development
        • Classification of Hospital Acquired Diagnoses
      • Sentinel events
      • Readmissions
      • Patient experience
        • About AHPEQS
          • What is AHPEQS
          • Why is AHPEQS needed
          • How was AHPEQS developed
        • For consumers
          • Why your voice is important
          • Completing the survey
          • What happens next
        • For implementers
          • Implementation basics
          • Why implement AHPEQS
          • Feedback and case studies
          • Stage 1 – Assessing the context
          • Stage 2 – Implementing AHPEQS
          • Stage 3 – Using the data
      • Patient-Reported Outcomes
        • About PROMs
        • For Consumers
        • For Implementers
          • Selecting PROMs
          • Implementing PROMs
          • Implementation case studies
        • PROMs List
          • Generic PROMs
          • Condition specific PROMs
        • Evidence
      • Patient safety culture
        • About patient safety culture
          • Evidence on patient safety culture
        • For consumers
        • For hospital management and boards
        • For hospital staff
        • For implementers
        • Measures of patient safety culture
          • Development of the Australian Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
        • Stage 1: Develop the project rationale and plan
        • Stage 2: Running the survey
        • Stage 3: Analysis and reporting
        • Stage 4: Feedback, action planning and improvement strategies
        • Tools and templates for A-HSOPS 2.0
      • Maternal morbidity indicators
      • Primary care
        • Practice-level indicators for primary care
    • Infection prevention and control
      • Clostridioides difficile infection
      • Environmental cleaning
      • Guidelines
        • Australian Infection Control Guidelines 2019
        • Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriacaea (CPE) Guide
        • National Infection Control Guidance for non-tuberculous Mycobacterium associated with heater-cooler devices
        • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)
      • HAI Advisory Committee
      • HAI surveillance
      • Infection Prevention and Control Consumer Resources
      • Infection prevention and control online modules
      • Infection Prevention and Control Week
      • National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI)
        • NHHI Manual
        • What is Hand Hygiene?
          • Alcohol-Based Handrubs
          • 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
        • Online learning
          • Online learning FAQs
        • National audits and HHCApp
          • Data definitions
          • Audit data
          • HHCApp FAQs and instructions
          • Audit requirements
          • Audit tools
        • Auditor training and validation
          • General auditor training
          • Gold Standard auditor workshops
          • Auditor register
          • Auditor validation requirements
          • Auditor Training FAQs
        • Promotional materials
        • NHHI FAQs
        • Contact us
      • Patient placement
      • Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions and Signage
      • Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SABSI)
    • Medication safety
      • Electronic medication charts
        • Electronic National Residential Medication Chart
        • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme electronic Chemotherapy Medication Chart project
      • Active Ingredient Prescribing
      • Quality use of medicines
        • Hospital QUM individual indicators
      • WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge
      • Position and safety statements
      • High risk medicines
        • APINCHS classification of high risk medicines
        • High risk medicines resources
        • Medication safety alerts and notices
      • NSMC Audit System
      • National Standard Medication Chart (NSMC) auditing
      • Medication charts
        • National standard medication charts
          • National inpatient medication chart – adult versions
          • National inpatient medication chart – paediatrics version
          • National inpatient medication chart – Day surgery versions
          • Private hospitals – national inpatient medication charts
          • General practitioner e-version – national inpatient medication chart
            • Notes on the NIMC GP-e-version
          • National residential medication chart
          • PBS hospital medication chart
          • Clozapine titration chart
          • National subcutaneous insulin charts
        • Background and development of medication charts
          • National inpatient medication chart development and background
          • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis section of hospital medication charts
          • Specialised medicine charts
          • National residential medication chart
        • Medication charts resources and tools
          • Education and training
          • Implementation and user guides
          • NIMC local management guidelines
          • Adverse drug reaction (ADR) sticker
          • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis resources and tools
          • Ordering and recording nutritional supplements on the NIMC and PBS HMC
      • Medication reconciliation
        • Medication Management Plan
        • Medication reconciliation resources and tools
          • Resources for obtaining a best possible medication history
          • National medication reconciliation seminar 2010
          • MATCH UP medicines resources
          • Resources for consumers
        • World Health Organization’s High 5s Medication Reconciliation Project
          • Standard operating protocols
      • Safer naming, labelling and packaging of medicines
        • Safe selection and storage of medicines
        • A4 label education posters
        • Labelling Standard labels
        • National Standard for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines Fluids and Lines
          • Labelling Standard labels
          • Label specifications for specialist clinical areas
          • Labelling Standard implementation resources
          • Labelling Standard issues register
        • National Tall Man Lettering List
        • Terminology, abbreviations and symbols used in medicines documentation
      • Electronic medication management
        • Electronic Medication Management Systems: A Guide to Safe Implementation
        • National guidelines for on-screen display of clinical medicines information
        • Literature review on health IT-related patient safety incidents
      • Medication safety resources and tools
        • Medication safety self-assessment tools
        • Interventions to improve medication safety – evidence briefs
        • Medication safety and quality education and training
      • National residential medication chart
      • Medication Safety Standard
    • Mental health
      • Mental health standards for community managed organisations
      • NSQHS Standards user guide for acute and community mental health services
      • National Standards in mental health services
      • Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration in mental state
      • Medication safety in mental health
      • Mental Health Advisory Group
      • Escalation Mapping Template
      • Emergency mental health contact details
    • NSQHS Standards
    • Primary health care
      • The National General Practice Accreditation Scheme
    • Partnering with consumers
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