Second Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation - expert advisory groups

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.

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

It incorporates standard NIMC features, plus the following features suitable for day procedure services:

• Intravenous fluid administration
• VTE risk assessment section without prophylaxis ordering.

There are two private hospital versions:

All NIMCs are available in versions for private hospitals: 

The NIMC GP e-version is:

The PBS HMC aims to:

Note

When clozapine is used for maintenance treatment use the NIMC (acute) or NIMC (long-stay).

Background

Use of charts

The VTE prophylaxis section in the NIMC is intended to prompt prescribers to assess all adult patients for risk of VTE on admission and prescribe appropriate VTE prophylaxis.