These resources for people with cognitive impairment provide information on your right to get health care that is good and safe. These translations have been developed to provide information on healthcare rights for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, informed consent (a new factsheet for clinicians), the economics of patient safety in long term care, governance for patient safety, sepsis, patient safety, harm, smart pumps and more
Also covered are latest issues of the American Journal of Medical Quality and the Journal of Health Services & Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, artificial intelligence in health care, clinical analytics, aged care, medication safety, and more
Also covered are latest issues of Public Health Research & Practice, Journal for Healthcare Quality and Health Affairs, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health.
Quality Use of Medicines and Medicines Safety was made the 10th National Health Priority Area in 2019 by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council. The Commission are developing a National Baseline Report on Quality Use of Medicines and Medicines Safety in response to this initiative. This discussion paper was published to support the public consultation which informed Phase 1 of the National Baseline Report.
New resources - ‘Could it be Sepsis?’
These new sepsis resources for World Patient Safety Day (17 September) encourage health care workers to make diagnostic excellence integral to their practice with three simple actions:
This resource has been developed for hospitals participating in the National NSMC Audit to assist with calculating audit results.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, post-pandemic health care, Aboriginal health, co-production, patient-centred care, medication errors in the ICU, safety culture, review methodologies, and more
Also covered are the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR.
This fact sheet includes information for clinicians about informed consent in health care.
Released September 2020
Informed consent is a person’s decision, given voluntarily, to agree to a healthcare treatment, procedure or other intervention that is made: