Fact sheet

Safe and high quality care for people with intellectual disability

Publisher
Integrated care Patient safety Regulatory standards Health practitioners Intellectual disability People with disability Quality management Australia
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Safe and high quality care for people with intellectual disability 250.79 KB
Description

This fact sheet provides clinicians with strategies to support improvements in the quality of healthcare for people with intellectual disability.

It is part of a series of fact sheets for health service organisations. The aim of the fact sheets is to support improvement in the quality of health care for people with intellectual disability. Reflective questions and suggested strategies are linked to actions in the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS) Standards.

Based on data

Intellectual disability: safety and quality issues https://apo.org.au/node/314600

Publication Details
Copyright:
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care 2021
License type:
CC BY-NC-ND
Access Rights Type:
open
Series:
NSQHS Fact sheet 5
Post date:
18 Oct 2021

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