Healthcare variation

Clinical variation is a difference in healthcare processes or outcomes, compared to peers or to a gold standard such as an evidence-based guideline recommendation.

NSQHS Standards User Guide for the Review of Clinical Variation in Health Care

2021
Guide, user guide or guidelines

The User Guide supports health services  to implement Action 1.28 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. It explains how health services and their clinicians can use data to improve the appropriateness of clinical care. It includes a suite of case studies that take users through the six steps of reviewing clinical variation data to improve processes and care.

Cover page of the NSQHS Standards User guide for the review of clinical variation in health care, August 2021
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