Acute

• For all children aged 12 years and under
• Has additional features to improve prescribing safety for paediatric inpatients, including neonates
• dose calculation space for medicine orders

Acute

• For patients in acute care
• Used across health service organisations in medical and surgical wards, emergency departments and intensive care units
• Allows for 10.5 days of administration, but this may be varied locally.

Second Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation - expert advisory groups

Consultation process

Topic Working Group

Development of 2014 indicators

The Commission engaged the NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group to revise the Indicators for Quality Use of Medicines in Australian Hospitals 2007 and develop new indicators for mental health and continuity of care. The revised indicators include:

How to take a BPMH – resources and tools

Use of the NMMP

The NMMP is used to:

AMR is when an antimicrobial is no longer able to effectively treat an infection. This is that a microorganism has developed resistance to an antimicrobial, so it won’t work to kill the infection.