The Third Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation investigates healthcare use in four clinical areas. Early planned caesarean section without medical or obstetric indication is included in Chapter 1 on neonatal and paediatric health.
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Guidance for clinicians on the nine quality statements from the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard, as well as helpful resources.
The Commission has developed the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe high-quality end-of-life care which describes the key clinical and organisational requirements for delivering excellent end-of-life care.
The Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard contains ten quality statements describing the care that should be provided to women who are pregnant or planning pregnancy, from preconception to after a stillbirth occurs. It also addresses bereavement care for parents who have experienced any form of perinatal loss.
The Commission leads and coordinates national initiatives to reduce harm associated with transitions of care. This work addresses the risks for patients moving between healthcare providers including primary, community, acute, subacute, and aged and disability care. Information developed by the Commission helps health service organisations and clinicians identify and implement strategies for improvement.
Accreditation provides assurances to the community that a general practice meets expected standards for safety and quality. It is a formal program in which trained independent reviewers assess a general practice’s evidence of implementation of the RACGP Standards for general practices and the RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing.
Healthcare services implement systems and processes to maximise safe, high-quality care and minimise clinical safety risks.
The My Health Record system collects documents from a range of healthcare providers. Some of this information may not be the most up-to-date patient data at the time of access.
Hand hygiene compliance auditing is conducted to assess the effectiveness of hand hygiene programs in Australia, as part of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI). Hand hygiene compliance is assessed across both public and private Australian hospitals, consistent with AHMAC endorsed benchmark of 80 per cent.
The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Care Standard describes the health care that you should expect to receive if you have COPD. Find out more about the ten quality statements from the COPD Clinical Care Standard, as well as helpful resources - including a video of John's experience living with COPD.
Ensuring that patients who deteriorate receive appropriate and timely care is a key safety and quality challenge. The Commission has introduced a range of systems to better manage recognition of and response to acute physiological deterioration.
Well-designed incident management systems assist patients, carers, families and the workforce to identify, report, manage and learn from incidents.