Tag Archives: quality and safety of health care

The guidelines controversy: what do the experts think?

Following the recent controversy about Australian and NZ guidelines for preventing blood clots, Croakey asked some relevant parties for their views on:
• whether  health departments, hospitals,  safety and quality groups be reviewing their support for these particular  guidelines in response to the concerns raised in the MJA and elsewhere?
• whether such agencies also review their [...]

Health safety chief offers media some lessons

Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, sent this email in response to my recent post about the complexity of factors which contribute to errors in the media and health care industries:
Hello Melissa
While acknowledging that the consequences of actual harm arising from an opinion piece in [...]