AURA 2023 includes data and analyses from 2020–2022 (primarily 2020–2021) from various sources and reports on patterns and trends in antimicrobial use and appropriateness and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Australian acute and community healthcare settings.
The Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA) Surveillance System collects, reviews and analyses data on antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in human health.
This complete version of the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for patients and their families, clinicians, and health service organisations, and provides indicators for local monitoring. It includes information about using clinical care standards, and the background and evidence sources for this standard.
New fact sheets are now available to support the implementation of the Australian Framework for National Clinical Quality Registries 2024.
This issue includes items on type 2 diabetes, young people, mental health, patient reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs), COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal of Patient Safety, Nursing Leadership, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Residential Aged Care Communiqué and the USA’s AHRQ Effective Health Care program..
The Commission is seeking an ongoing, full-time EL1 Health Information Officer, MedicineInsight.
Information on this vacancy and how to apply can be found in the link below. Applications for this role will close 11:59pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), Thursday 5 December 2024.
Questions about the role can be directed to Anna Lewis (02) 7232 6059.
This guidance explains how aged care organisations and providers can implement policies and practices to meet the requirements of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard.
The Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements describing the care a patient should be offered for acute stroke.
As Australia's population continues to age, the need for more appropriate and safer medicine use is critical. The National Medicines Symposium 2024, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, will address this issue under the theme ‘Appropriate Use of Medicines in an Ageing Population.’
Released 13 November 2024