Improving patient medication safety in Australia World Health Organization’s High 5s Project

20/04/2010 4:52:22 PM

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) has, with the participation of 28 hospitals across Australia, launched a program to improve the safety of patients receiving medicines in hospitals.

Under the program, the participating hospitals will introduce standardised procedures to collect and check information about each patient’s medicines much more rigorously and accurately, starting from when the patient is first admitted to hospital and continuing through each stage of the patient’s hospital treatment when medicines may change.  

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For further information, please visit the Medication Safety Program page (under ‘Our Work’) at www.safetyandquality.gov.au  or contact the Commission on (02) 9263 3633.