Quality Assurance

Follow the links below to find information about quality assurance in drugs, the health profession, and medical products and technologies.

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Title:   College Advocacy
Publisher:   Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Description:   As part of its commitment to ensuring the highest standard of surgical care for the community, the College endeavours to take informed and principled positions on issues of public health. This can involve participation in consultation processes undertaken by government and the preparation of submissions to government agencies on a range of matters, from the specifically surgical to broader health related issues.
Date:   Apr 2012
Title:   Simvastatin: new contraindications, precautions and dosage recommendations
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The TGA is advising health professionals to limit the prescribing of high dose (80 mg/day) simvastatin and to be aware of new contraindications and precautions
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   TGA to cancel four prescription pain-killers from 1 March 2012
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The TGA intends to cancel all pain-killers containing dextropropoxyphene - Capadex, Di-Gesic, Doloxene and Paradex - from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), from 1 March 2012.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Clinical communications: 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:   Oct 2011
Title:   Supervision to improve the quality of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Researchers in the Cochrane Collaboration conducted a review of the impact of supervising healthcare workers on the quality of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries. After searching for all relevant studies, they found nine studies. Th...
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Guidance on the GMP clearance of overseas medicine manufacturers
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Provides information to sponsors and manufacturers on the acceptable form of evidence of GMP compliance for overseas manufacturers and outlines how to submit such evidence to the TGA for assessment
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Reporting problems
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to forms and information for reporting problems with therapeutic goods in Australia.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   OLSS international affiliations & activities
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   As an integral part of the regulatory process, TGA's Office of Laboratories and Scientific Services staff are involved in the development of standards for therapeutic goods, at both national and international levels
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Drug Approvals and Licensing
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on the approval and licensing of drugs.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Manufacturing principles - new/amended requirements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Identifies the major changes associated with the adoption of the 2009 PIC/S Guide compared to the Australian Code of Good Manufacturing Practices for Medicinal Products, 2002
Date:   Sep 2009
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:   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:   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:   Professions allied to medicine, such as nurses, midwives and dietiticians, can effectively incorporate clinical guidelines to improve patient care
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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