This resource is designed to assist primary health providers identify and manage patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in the community.
The report outlines the findings and recommendations from the 2022 National Standard Medication Chart (NSMC) national audit.
Next week, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is releasing the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard.
CEO MESSAGE
On behalf of the Commission, I'm delighted to announce that we have signed an historic Joint Statement to reduce the health system’s carbon emissions.
- Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO
There's still time to secure your place at the National Medicines Symposium on 19 November 2024.
The Commission’s theme for IPC Week 2024, from 13 to 19 October, is ‘Move the needle on IPC by breaking the chain of infection!’
This issue includes items on health impacts of climate change, medication safety, medication management at transitions of care, diagnostic safety, trauma, hip fracture, resilient health care, adverse events, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Pediatric Quality & Safety, HealthcarePapers Health Affairs Scholar, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NIHR.
This issue includes items on medication safety, real-time prescription monitoring (RTPM), safety culture and leadership, morbidity and mortality meetings, digital health, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal of Patient Safety, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, BMJ Leader, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the USA’s AHRQ.
The purpose of this advisory is to provide clarification of not applicable actions for community-managed mental health service organisations implementing the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations (NSQMHCMO Standards).
Assessment tools for clinicians to consider when making physical and functional and psychosocial assessments when diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis.