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.
Help protect our present, and secure our future by taking part in World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025 (WAAW), held from 18 to 24 November.
The Commission is seeking your feedback on the draft Point of Care Testing (POCT) Standard.
To help GPs reflect on and strengthen their approach to managing COPD, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care will soon release Practice Reflections: COPD.
A new national framework has been released to support health services to reduce medication-related errors and hospital readmission rates for patients who are transitioning between care settings.
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A new national framework has been released to support health services to reduce medication-related errors and hospital readmission rates for patients who are transitioning between care settings.
The Medication Management at Transitions of Care Stewardship Framework released in November 2025 provides the first coordinated, hospital-based approach to manage medicines during the high-risk period for patients who are transitioning between care settings.
The Framework was designed to support health services to reduce medication-related errors and hospital readmission rates for patients during transitions of care, when patients move between hospital and primary and aged care settings.
This issue includes items on air quality, reporting, maternity care, medication safety, and more. Along with the latest from The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Emergency Medicine Australasia and JBI Evidence Synthesis. Also included are the latest from the Healthcare Excellence Canada and the UK’s NICE.