Quality Assurance

Links to information about quality assurance in drugs, the health profession, and medical products and technologies.

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Title:   Clinical handover
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The purpose of this program is to identify, develop and improve clinical handover communication. Safe health care delivery for patients depends on effective communication between health care providers. Developing and implementing more consistent and reliable approaches to clinical handover is a key strategy to reduce communication errors.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Report a problem with a therapeutic product
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to forms and information for reporting problems with therapeutic goods in Australia.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Media release. Handbook to assist with best immunisation practice
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The ninth edition of the Australian Immunisation Handbook was launched by the Minister for Health and Ageing on 8 April. The book helps doctors and parents ensure that children are properly immunised, at the right time - keeping kids healthy.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Guidance on the GMP clearance of overseas medicine manufacturers
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This guidance document is intended to provide information on what is regarded by the TGA as an acceptable form of evidence, and guidance for sponsors and manufacturers on the submission of that evidence to the TGA for assessment. It is not intended to provide a definitive list of forms of evidence that are considered acceptable or unacceptable.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Drug Approvals and Licensing
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on the approval and licensing of drugs.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children and adolescents in New South Wales - 2007
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   This document represents the final report of the Special Review of attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents which was conducted in New South Wales in 2007
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   The value of PubMed and HighWire Press for the busy general practitioner
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Many sites have been developed on the internet to help people searching for quality, peer-reviewed literature. These include the Cochrane Library, PubMed, as well as sites offering full-text access to medical journals, such as Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   World Health Organization collaborating centres
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The TGA Laboratories is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Quality Assurance, and a WHO Collaborating Centre for Quality Control of Vaccines and Biologicals.
Date:   Oct 2003
Title:   Editorial: The National Prescribing Service and Australian Prescriber
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   As the National Prescribing Service assumes proprietorship of this bulletin, it is timely to outline the history of the change, and to give some insight into what the future may bring.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   Imaging orders by general practitioners in Australia 1999-00
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,University of Sydney
Description:   This pubication reports on the imaging ordered by general practitioners in Australia, as represented by a random sample 1,047 GPs participating in the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program over a one year period. Over 100,000 encounters were available for analysis.
Date:   Oct 2001
Title:   Clinical practice guidelines for the Advanced Breast Biopsy Instrument (ABBI)
Publisher:   Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-S)
Description:   These clinical practice guidelines summarise the current reported experience with the ABBI system. They are aimed specifically at health care professionals preparing to perform ABBI biopsies, rather than consumers.
Date:   May 2000
Title:   Click, click: the internet and prescription drugs
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Health information is very popular in the internet. However, the quality of this information can be good or bad. It is up to you to check the quality of the information. There are no controls or safeguards on the internet.
Date:   Jan 2000
Title:   WHO article - medical products and the Internet: a guide to finding reliable information
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   If used properly, the Internet allows quick and easy access to health information. It provides useful information on such topics as diseases, conditions, therapies, medical products, and health and medical organizations and institutions.
Date:   May 1999
Title:   Guidelines in professions allied to medicine
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The issuing of clinical guidelines to nurses, midwives, dieticians and other health-care professionals allied to medicine may reduce variations in practice and improve patient care. This review found that, despite limited research, there is some evidenc...
Date:   Nov 1998
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