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A literature review for updating the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care beyond acute care and during a pandemic.

The LGBTQI+ version of the Australian Charter of Health Care Rights can be used by health services to promote diversity and inclusion.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, chronic disease management, treatment of low back pain, patient complaints, resource allocation, root cause analysis (RCA), surgical ‘never events’, coronial reports, and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of The Journal for Healthcare Quality, Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, Public Health Research & Practice and Healthcare Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality and Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

This issue includes items on the new National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards User Guide for the health care of people with intellectual disability, consumer engagement, patient safety, medical research, opioids, medication safety, aged care, infections, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Healthcare Quarterly, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, clinical governance, shared care, patient experience, discharge summaries, opioids, antimicrobials, diagnostic error and more.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, bundled payments, integrated health and social care, shared decision making, telemedicine, clinical quality registries and more.

This fact sheet provides important information for clinicians to consider when discussing advance care plans with patients and sets out the actions that directly relate to advance care planning in the NSQHS Standards.

This issue includes items on infection prevention and control, over-diagnosis and over-treatment of the frail elderly, patient feedback, multimorbidity, clinician engagement, person-centred learning health systems, patient-physician relationship, medication safety, blood management and more.

This week’s issue includes items on ENT surgery, shared decision making, data linkage, hospital associated complications of older people, sepsis, Choosing Wisely and children and young people’s mental health and more.

Also covered are new issues of the Journal for Healthcare Quality and Nursing Leadership, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

The Consensus Statement describes eight essential elements for prompt and reliable recognition of, and response to, physiological deterioration of patients in acute healthcare facilities in Australia.

The National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards were launched on 14 December 2023. The standards aim to protect the public from harm and improve the quality of cosmetic surgery in Australia.

This A4 infographic showcases key data insights into cosmetic surgery in Australia.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, developmental language disorder, diagnostic errors in the COVID-19 era, team communication after an error, patient feedback and more.

Also covered is the latest issue of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NIHR (National Institute for Health and Research) and the USA’s AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

This issue includes items on COVID-19, Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection, living with dementia, patient experience, diagnosis, primary care, adverse events, burnout and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety & Risk Management and Pediatric Quality & Safety Health Research & Practice, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality and Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard, National Safety and Quality Primary Healthcare Standards, hospital worker behaviour, patient perceptions and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Journal of Patient Safety, and Healthcare Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s ARHQ.

This issue includes items on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards user guide for acute and community mental health services, the UK’s Women’s Health Strategy, medication safety, falls, decision support, patient decision aids, virtual care, COVID-19 and more.

This issue includes items on carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), clinical deterioration, patient satisfaction, diversity and racism, Medical Emergency Teams (MET), COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are news issues of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and Health Affairs  and the online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard, the forthcoming Fourth Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, low value healthcare, shared decision making, patient decision aids, hospital-acquired complications (HACs), smartphone use and more.