AMR OECD Antimicrobial resistance CBCT Organisation for Economic Co-operation Cone beam computed tomography and Development AMS CT Antimicrobial stewardship Computed tomography PBS Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ANZASM EMM RACS Australian and New Zealand Audit Electronic medication management Royal Australasian College of Surgeons of Surgical Mortality IT SAC ANZDATA Information technology Safety assessment code Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry MBS WHO Medicare Benefits Schedule World Health Organization AOANJRR Australian Orthopaedic Association MRSA Introduction National Joint Replacement Registry Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus AURA NSQHS Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in National Safety and Quality Health Service Australia Welcome to this fourth annual edition of the state of safety and quality of health care safety and quality of health care. The Vital Signs, produced by the Australian in Australia in 2015–16. Commission works in partnership with Commission on Safety and Quality in patients, carers, clinicians, managers, Health Care (the Commission) to report on The role is to lead and policy makers and healthcare organisations Commission’s coordinate national improvements in the
AMR Antimicrobial resistance AMS Antimicrobial stewardship ANZASM Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality ANZDATA Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry AOANJRR Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry AURA Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia CBCT Cone beam computed tomography CT Computed tomography EMM Electronic medication management IT Information technology MBS Medicare Benefits Schedule MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus NSQHS National Safety and Quality Health Service OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PBS Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme RACS Royal Australasian College of Surgeons SAC Safety assessment code WHO World Health Organization Introduction Welcome to this fourth annual edition of Vital Signs, produced by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) to report on the state of safety and quality of health care in Australia in 2015–16. The Commission’s role is to lead and coordinate national improvements in the safety and quality of health care. The Commission works in partnership with patients, carers, clinicians, managers, policy makers and healthcare organisations
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