Quality & Safety
Publications
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Incident Management Incident Reports |
Accreditation
- A core strategy for cancer care: Accreditation of Cancer Services - a discussion paper, February 2005 The Cancer Council
Annual Reports
- Analysis of first year of IIMS Data Annual Report 2005-2006 (CEC website)
- Clinical Excellence Commission Annual Report 2004/2005 (CEC website)
- NSW Department of Health Annual Report 2005/06
- NSW Department of Health Annual Report 2004/05
Clinical Risk Management
- Clinical Risk Management Program for General Practitioners working in small NSW Rural Hospitals
- NSW Health Privacy Manual
- NSW Health privacy management plan
Complaint About a Clinician
Complaint Management
- See Publications in the Complaint Management website.
Correct Site Surgery
Easy Guides
Incident Management
- Online Easy Guide to Clinical Incident Management 2007
- Checklist Flip Chart for Root Cause Analysis Teams 2005 (Note that the PDF is for online viewing. The print version is a small booklet, 10.5x14 cm)
- A Framework for Managing the Quality of Health Services in NSW 1999
- Easy Guide to Clinical Practive Improvement - a guide for healthcare professionals 2002
- The Clinician's Toolkit for improving patient care 2001
- Severity Assessment Code (SAC) Matrix 2005
- Data as Information—A Power Tool in Cultural Change (PDF poster)
Incident Reports
- Bi-Annual Report Incident Management in the NSW Public Health System 2007, January to June
- Third Report on Incident Management in the NSW Health Public Health System 2005-2006
- Second Report on Incident Management in the NSW health public health system 2004-2005
- First Report on Incident Management in the NSW health public health system 2003-2004
Knowledge Management
- See Publications and Articles in the Knowledge Management website.
Literature Reviews
- Correct Site Surgery
- Root Cause Analysis
- Blood administration (Intranet only)
- Clinical management (Intranet only)
- Falls prevention (Intranet only)
- Maternal and perinatal (Intranet only)
- Medication error (Intranet only)
Patient Safety
- NSW Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Program 2005
- 10 Tips for Safer Health Care (flyer)
- Patient Safety Research - a review of the technical literature, CEC 2006
- A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to Improve Patient Safety, National Audit Office UK
- When things go wrong: responding to adverse events, A Consensus Statement of the Harvard Hospitals, March 2006
- Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, Health Grades April 2006
- Queensland Health Systems Review - Final Report, Sep 2005
- National Framework to NHS Scotland - National Framework Final Report
- Five years after To Err Is Human: what have we learned? (JAMA)
- Health Affairs - A Conversation with Donald Berwick
- ICAC Discussion paper on corruption risks in NSW public health sector
- Committed to Safety: Ten Case Studies on Reducing Harm to Patients
Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
- Prevention of pressure ulcers brochure NSW Department of Health 2003
- Prevention of pressure ulcers - community care NSW Department of Health 2003
- Prevention of pressure ulcers - rehabilitation and residential settings NSW Department of Health 2003
- Prevention of pressure ulcers - transport of a patient NSW Department of Health 2003
Qualified Privilege
- Information package for quality assurance committees seeking qualified privilege
- Application for qualified privilege by a quality assurance committee
- Qualified privilege for quality improvement committees & programs in health
Safey Alert Broadcast System (SABS) in NSW