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IHE Radiology Technical Framework White Paper 2004-2005 For Trial Implementation - Departmental workflow v2.2
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Supplementary Resource
Organisation
IHE
Type
Standard
Version
2.2
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Trial
Created
April 2004
This white paper describes IHE's understanding of workflow that underlies the IHE Radiology Technical Framework.
Health informatics - Classification of purposes for processing personal health information
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS ISO 14265-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification defines a set of high-level categories of reasons for which personal health information can be processed.
Health informatics - Representation of categorial structures of terminology (CatStructure)
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 17115:2022
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Standard
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2022
This standard defines a set of basic concepts for describing: formal concept representation systems, representation of concepts and characteristics for formal computer-based concept representation systems, and the characteristics that describe the organisation and content of a terminological system in health.
Pseudonymization
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS ISO 25237-2011
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Standard
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2011
This technical specification provides principles and requirements for privacy protection using pseudonymisation services for the protection of personal health information.
Health informatics - International patient summary
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS ISO 27269:2022
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Standard
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2022
This standard defines the core dataset for a patient summary document that supports continuity of care for a person and coordination of their health care.
Health informatics - Information security management in health using ISO/IEC 27002
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 27799:2023
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Standard
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2023
This standard adopts ISO 27799:2016, which provides guidelines for organisation-wide information security standards and information security management practices.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 1: Platform independent (logical) information model to support electronic transfer of prescriptions
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.1-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification is for a platform-independent (logical) information model for an electronic prescription, specifying the information structure of e-prescriptions, to support the electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP). This is Part 1 of 6.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 2: Platform independent (logical) services model to support electronic transfer of prescriptions
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Technical Specification
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Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.2-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification outlines an electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) solution for the generation and transfer of electronic prescriptions and associated dispensing records between participating prescribers and dispensers. This is Part 2 of 6.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 3: Platform implementation specific e-prescription HL7 Clinical Document Architecture implementation guide
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.3-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification provides requirements for implementing the logical model detailed in ATS 4888.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 3 of 6.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 4: Platform implementation specific dispense record HL7 Clinical Document Architecture implementation guide
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
ATS 4888.4-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification provides requirements for implementing the logical model of a dispense record detailed in ATS 4888.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 4 of 6.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 5: Platform implementation specific prescription request HL7 Clinical Document Architecture implementation guide
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.5-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification provides requirements for implementing the logical model of a prescription request detailed in ATS 4888.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 5 of 6.
Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 6: Platform implementation specific web service
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.6-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification defines an implementable, platform-dependent technical services specification for an electronic transfer of prescriptions package using web services. This is Part 6 of 6.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 1: Messaging rules and process logic
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS 5023.1-2003
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Standard
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Created
2003
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 1 of 6 related standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 2: Datasets
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.2-2003
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Standard
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2003
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 2 of 6 related standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 3: Messaging rules and process logic - Secondary transactions
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.3-2004
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Standard
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2004
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 3 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 4: Dataset content - Secondary transactions
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS 5023.4-2004
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Standard
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2004
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 4 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 5: Messaging rules and process logic - Turnover order, turnover order status, rebate claim, rebate claim response
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS 5023.5-2005
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Standard
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2005
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 5 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 6: Dataset content - Turnover order status, rebate claim, rebate claim response
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS 5023.6-2005
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Standard
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2005
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 6 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.
Health Supply Chain Messaging - Evaluated receipts settlement
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
ATS 5038-2006
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Standard
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2006
This technical specification documents a model for the use of electronic messaging in support of evaluated receipts settlement (ERS) in the health industry supply chain.
E-health XML secured payload profiles
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Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
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AS 5551-2013
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Standard
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Created
2013
This standard defines mechanisms for representing signed XML fragments and encrypted XML fragments.
Digital images for diagnostic and other clinical purposes: Presentation, communication, display and manipulation
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 5816-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification defines the requirements for the presentation, communication, display and manipulation of digital images that are to be used for primary and secondary diagnosis.
Health software and health IT systems safety, effectiveness and security, Part 1: Principles and concepts
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 81001.1:2022
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Standard
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2022
This standard identically adopts ISO 81001 1:2021, which provides the principles, concepts, terms and definitions for health software and health IT systems, key properties of safety, effectiveness and security, across the full life cycle, from concept to decommissioning.
Health software, Part 1: General requirements for product safety
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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS IEC 82304.1:2022
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Standard
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2022
This standard identically adopts IEC 82304 1:2016, which provides requirements for the safety and security of health software products designed to operate on general computing platforms and intended to be placed on the market without dedicated hardware, with a primary focus on the requirements for manufacturers.
HL7 V2 E-referral implementation profile
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS 5338:2014
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Standard
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Created
2014
This technical specification provides an Australian integration profile for implementation and testing of HL7 messages focusing on AS 4700.6 for referral messaging, and supports all types of referrals as covered by AS 4700.6.
Health informatics - Metadata repository requirements (MetaRep)
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS ISO 21526:2022
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Standard
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2022
This technical specification identically adopts ISO/TS 21526:2019, which provides requirements for collections of metadata about data elements and their containing models and datasets in a healthcare environment.
Health informatics - Terminology resource map quality measures (MapQual)
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS ISO 21564:2022
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Standard
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Created
2022
This technical specification identically adopts ISO/TS 21564:2019, which provides quality requirements for producing a quality map between terminological systems.
Core discharge summary, Part 1: Structured document template
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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ATS 90006.1-2013
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Standard
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Created
2013
This technical specification specifies and defines the complete set of data elements proposed for use to support the creation of a valid and interoperable discharge summary instance.
Consumer entered information, Part 1: Logical content specification
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
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SA TS 90007.1:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification describes the essential clinical data groups and elements to be captured in a consumer entered health summary exchange and the constraints that should be applied. This is Part 1 of 2 specifications on consumer-entered information.
Consumer entered information, Part 2: CDA implementation guide
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS 90007.2:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification helps implement the logical model detailed by SA TS 90007.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 1 of 2 specifications on consumer-entered information.
Advance care directive custodian location, Part 1: Logical content specification
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS 90008.1:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification describes the essential clinical data groups and elements to be captured in an advance care directive custodian record exchange and the constraints that should be applied.
Advance care directive custodian location, Part 2: CDA implementation guide
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Technical Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA TS 90008.2:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification describes constraints on the CDA and, where necessary, custom extensions to the CDA, for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements for Australian implementations of advance care directives.
Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide
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Handbook
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA HB 234-2012
Type
Standard
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Created
2012
This handbook provides an implementation guide for Australian healthcare related identifiers that details how these identifiers are communicated in systems using the AS 4700 series implementation standards for HL7 v2.3, v2.3.1, v2.4 and v2.5 patient administration messages, as well as CDA.
Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide - AMDT 1
Category
Handbook
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
SA HB 234-2012 AMDT 1
Type
Standard
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Created
2012
This is an amendment to SA HB 234-2012 Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide.
Guidelines for messaging between diagnostics providers and health service providers
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Handbook
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
HB 262-2012
Type
Standard
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Created
2012
This handbook supports AS 4700.2-2007, which is the standard for implementing external messaging using HL7 between diagnostics providers and all health service providers in Australia, using HL7 Version 2.4.
Guide to the principles and desirable features of clinical decision support systems
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Handbook
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
HB 307-2007
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Standard
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Created
2007
This handbook defines the type of clinical decision support systems used in health care and identifies the principal elements of quality systems.
International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) - Translation Guide
Category
User guide
Organisation
ICN
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) is an agreed terminology, or dictionary of terms or expressions, that may be used to represent nursing practice consistently in any setting.
International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) - Technical implementation guide
Category
Implementation Guide
Organisation
ICN
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
This guide is an authoritative source to support the development and implementation of electronic record systems that use the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP).
Chronic respiratory conditions v33
National asthma indicators
Category
Reference Table
Organisation
AIHW
Type
Standard
Version
33
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Open
Status
Active
Updated
December 2023
The National Asthma Strategy aims to reduce the health, social and economic impacts of asthma with a targeted and comprehensive approach to optimise asthma diagnosis and management. These indicators provide information for policymakers about the status of asthma in Australia.
Australia's mothers and babies v1
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Reference Table
Organisation
AIHW
ID
PER 101
Type
Standard
Version
1
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Open
Status
Active
Updated
December 2023
This web report includes interactive data visualisations, and in-depth information and trends on the antenatal period, labour and birth, and outcomes for babies at birth.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies v1
Category
Reference Table
Organisation
AIHW
ID
PER 120
Type
Standard
Version
1
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Open
Status
Active
Updated
October 2023
This web report explores the characteristics and health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and their babies through interactive data visualisations, and in-depth information and trends on the antenatal period, labour and birth, and outcomes for babies at birth.
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards v2
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
ID
NSQHS Standards
Type
Standard
Version
2
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Open
Status
Active
Updated
May 2021
The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) provide a quality assurance mechanism for testing whether systems are in place to meet safety and quality standards.
Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2021
This clinical care standard describes the care that patients should receive when they have anaphylaxis. It applies to adults, children and infants, including those who experience anaphylaxis while in a healthcare facility.
Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
December 2019
This clinical care standard describes the care that patients with a suspected ACS should receive, from the onset of symptoms through to discharge from hospital. It addresses recognition of an ACS, rapid assessment, early management and early initiation of a tailored rehabilitation plan.
Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
October 2019
This clinical care standard describes the care that patients should receive when they are or may be having a stroke. It covers recognition of stroke, rapid assessment, early management, and early initiation of an individualised rehabilitation plan.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2020
This clinical care standard describes the care people of all ages should receive when they have or may have infection or require an antimicrobial for prophylaxis.
Cataract Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
August 2021
This clinical care standard describes the care that should be received by people aged 18+ who have cataract, in all healthcare settings.
Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard
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Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Updated
January 2020
This clinical care standard describes the care that should be received by adults undergoing colonoscopy for screening, diagnosis, surveillance or treatment.
Delirium Clinical Care Standard
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
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Open
Status
Active
Created
2016
Updated
September 2021
This clinical care standard describes the care that should be received by adults when they have delirium.