Purpose
To improve the time to optimal diagnosis and treatment for people with anaphylaxis.
Quality statements
The Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard includes six quality statements. By describing what each statement means, the standard supports:
The quality statements in the Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard describe the expected standard for key components of patient care.
What do clinicians need to know?
The Commission, in collaboration with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Australian Government Department of Health is undertaking a project to develop and pilot the Australian Unique Device Identifier Framework (UDI Framework) for Australian health service organisations (UDI4H).
2021
Newsletter
This issue includes items on COVID-19, clinical governance, psychological safety and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal of Patient Safety and Milbank Quarterly along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the USA’s AHRQ.
Overview
In 2020 the Australian Government Department of Health (the Department) engaged the Commission to develop minimum information requirements for a PBS eCMC to support safe prescribing, administration, dispensing and claiming of PBS and non-PBS chemotherapy medicines.
Electronic National Residential Medication Chart (eNRMC) medication management systems will be used to electronically prescribe medicines in residential care facilities, without the need for paper prescriptions.
| Committee Member Name | Committee Contribution | Role Title & Organisation | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Ian Chubb AC | Chair | Chair | National |
| Dr Megan Campbell |