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The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) are Australia's principal health care standards, and apply to all health services including inpatient, outpatient, and community care. [5] There are 8 standards: Clinical governance; Partnering with consumers; Preventing and controlling infections; Medication safety
Malaysian Society for Quality in Health ( MSQH) - based in Malaysia; QHA Trent Accreditation - based in the UK-Europe [7] The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC)
Standard 8 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards is Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration, which centres on the early detection of deterioration and escalation of care. Action 8.4 of the standard explicitly states that health services are to "graphically document and track changes in agreed observations ...
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) [9] uses standards developed by the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) [10] Australian Council for Healthcare Standards International (ACHSI), based in Australia [11]
This includes the development of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights and the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, improving areas such as patient identification, medication safety, clinical handover and open disclosure, and reducing healthcare associated infection. The commission has also developed the National Safety ...
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a United States–based non-profit membership organization that promotes patient protections and healthcare quality through measurement and public reporting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established in 1999 based on recommendations by the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care ...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]