This issue includes items on COVID-19, residential aged care, ‘never events’, peer support for health care workers, and more.
Also covered is the latest issue of Healthcare Quarterly, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.
In this presentation learn what healthcare variation is, and, given so many competing demands in healthcare delivery, why it is important. Hear from Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan as she makes the case for examining and understanding healthcare variation.
Monitoring the implementation of this clinical care standard will help organisations to meet some of the requirements of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
The Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard includes ten evidence-based quality statements to promote the skillful use of peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) and to reduce complications including infections.
To minimise complications by ensuring that PIVCs are removed safely when they are no longer needed, when they malfunction or when complications develop. Replacement with a new device only occurs when IV therapy needs to continue.
To ensure that PIVCs are promptly removed when they are no longer needed.
This information sheet provides support to hospitals on how to analyse and use their SABSI surveillance data as part of a quality improvement approach.