Library resource guides: Safety &amp; quality resources: Other resources

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WebAIRS

webAIRS
webAIRS stands for web-based Anaesthetic Incident Reporting System. It's an online reporting tool available to all anaesthetic departments in Australia and New Zealand. The system was developed by the Australian and New Zealand Tripartite Anaesthetic Data Committee (ANZTADC).

Incidents
News
Events
Publications
FAQ

WebAIRS articles
Full-text access to WebAIRS-related articles.

ANZCA: Anaesthetic incident reporting
We oversee a range of incident reporting activities in Australia and New Zealand, including mortality reporting and webAIRS, to ensure that we continue to be two of the safest countries in the world to undergo anaesthesia.

ACSQHC: Resource library

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has a Resource library, which can be filtered by resource type and year of publication. Visit the Resource library at the following link:
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Resource library

ANZCOR Guidelines

ANZCOR Guidelines
The ANZCOR (Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation) guidelines provide those involved in resuscitation education and practice with recommendations based on scientific evidence.

Please note: Guidelines may be modified at any time and are only current from the day of printing.

Choosing Wisely Australia

Choosing Wisely Australia
Choosing Wisely Australia® is part of a global healthcare initiative to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.

Choosing Wisely: ANZCA
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) ), including the Faculty of Pain Medicine, is one of Australasia's largest specialist medical colleges and is responsible for the training, examination and specialist accreditation of anaesthetists and pain medicine specialists and for the standards of clinical practice.

Choosing Wisely Australia. Recommendations: Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA.
Recommendations from the Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA on chronic pain, neuropathic pain and low back pain. The Faculty is responsible for the training, examination and specialist accreditation of specialist pain medicine physicians and for the standards of clinical practice for pain medicine in Australia and New Zealand.

Clinical Excellence Commission

Clinical Excellence Commission
The Clinical Excellence Commission is the lead agency supporting safety and quality improvement in the NSW Health system.

National Audit Projects (NAPS)

Royal College of Anaesthetists: National Audit Projects (NAPS)
The NAPs are "internationally important reports with a potentially significant impact on patient outcome and experience during and after anaesthesia and surgery" (Moppett, 2013). In addition to 'shining a light' on the topic, the NAPs include recommendations for clinical practice and research. The NAPs are intended to examine, report on and drive improvements in practice.

NSQHS standards - live literature searches

These PubMed live searches provide updated results for 11 topics aligned to the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. They have been developed, tested and endorsed as part of the HeLiNS (Health Libraries for the National Standards) Research Project, a joint initiative of HLA and HLI (Health Libraries Inc).

Highlights:

Searches have been created by a librarian with expertise in searching for evidence on health.
Aimed at clinicians working in Australian hospitals who wish to find evidence to support best practice in line with Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

The searches:

Website Advance care planning

Blood management

Clinical handover

Delirium

Deteriorating patient

Falls prevention

Infection prevention

Medical safety

Partnering with consumers

Pressure injuries

Wound management

Additional information about the searches and advanced options/tips can be accessed here: https://hla.alia.org.au/nsqhs-standards/

Patient safety modules

Learn@ANZCA

Use the links below to access additional support resources contained on the Learn @ANZCA platform.

Note: Resources located in Learn@ANZCA require that you first register before accessing.

Perioperative Anaphylaxis Response [Learn@ANZCA]
The Perioperative Anaphylaxis Response course has been developed to specifically meet the requirements of the anaphylaxis emergency response guidelines of the ANZCA and FPM CPD program.

Coursera: Patient Safety Specialization (Johns Hopkins University)
Preventable patient harms, including medical errors and healthcare-associated complications, are a global public health threat. Moreover, patients frequently do not receive treatments and interventions known to improve their outcomes. These shortcomings typically result not from individual clinicians’ mistakes, but from systemic problems -- communication breakdowns, poor teamwork, and poorly designed care processes, to name a few.
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Learners will use real-world strategies, tools, and techniques to resolve various patient safety and quality issues based on authentic scenarios that occur in medical and clinical settings. They will also be required to leverage cross-disciplinary concepts to successfully address patient safety concerns.

Safety alerts

ANZCA: Safety Alerts
We notify members of important safety, quality, and supply issues affecting the medicines and medical devices they use. This information generally comes via the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia or MedSafe in New Zealand.
Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (UK)
Includes searchable lists of adverse drug reactions by drug (Drug Analysis Prints (DAPs) / drug analysis profiles (iDAPs)).

Safety Practices for Interventional Pain Procedures

Safety Practices for Interventional Pain Procedures
These safety practices have been developed to highlight the important elements in the safe performance of interventional pain procedures. Adherence to these practices will help decrease the risk of preventable complications. For additional information about the indications and technical aspects that yield improved treatment outcomes, refer to the IPSIS Practice Guidelines for Spinal Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures.

Please note that these Safety Practices documents have been updated to address GBCA recommendations from a multisociety practice advisory. (April 19, 2021)

Stop before you block

Stop Before You Block (SB4YB) is an initiative that started at Nottingham University Hospital in 2010 following a series of inadvertent wrong-sided nerve blocks. Below are some resources for anaesthesia departments to use in in the operating theatre and for educational purposes, and to help individual anaesthetists to take part in the “Stop before you block” campaign, supported by ANZCA.

Resources for Opioid Stewardship Implementation (ROSI)

ANZCA: Resources for Opioid Stewardship Implementation (ROSI)
ROSI is a multidisciplinary toolkit to help navigate opioid stewardship. It aims to provide healthcare facilities with practical, user-friendly information and resources to help facilities begin to implement an opioid stewardship program.

Therapeutic Guidelines

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Therapeutic Guidelines is a leading source of accurate, independent and practical treatment advice for a wide range of clinical conditions.

Log into Therapeutic Guidelines (using your college ID and password)

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