Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care; Commonwealth of Australia Country Resources General Health Service Standards Australia 21 September 2012 Guidelines

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The Standards provide a nationally consistent and uniform set of measures of safety and quality for application across a wide variety of health care services. They propose evidence-based improvement strategies to deal with gaps between current and best practice outcomes that affect a large number of patients. The Standards address the following areas:

•Governance for Safety and Quality in Health Service Organizations
•Partnering with Consumers
•Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infections
•Medication Safety
•Patient Identification and Procedure Matching
•Clinical Handover
•Blood and Blood Products
•Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries
•Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration in Acute Health Care
•Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls

The Standards are designed to assist health service organizations to deliver safe and high quality care.The document presents the ten National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and details the tasks required to fulfill them.

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