Person

Gillian Caughey

Affiliation:

University of Adelaide

South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute

Flinders University

University of South Australia

Alternate Name:

Gillian E. Caughey

ORCID:

0000-0003-1192-4121

Journal article

The prevalence of and variation in indicators of the quality and safety of long term aged care in Australia, 2019

4 Aug 2025

Tesfahun Eshetie,

Gillian Caughey,

Catherine Lang

Olivia Ryan, Renuka Visvanathan, Craig Whitehead, Keith Evans, Janet Sluggett, Jyoti Khadka, Carolyn Dawkins, Helena Williams, Miranda Starke, Sara Blunt, Anne Liddell, Megan Corlis, Anna Sheppeard, Penelope Lello, Marilyn Thien, Steven Wesselingh, Maria Inacio

Medical Journal of Australia (MJA)

The study examined the prevalence of and variation in the quality and safety of care provided to older Australians who received subsidised long term care during 2019, by type of care. It found marked national variations. The findings could be used to identify areas of aged care that could be targeted by quality improvement programs.

Report

International and national quality and safety indicators for aged care

24 Aug 2020

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

This research examines practices in 11 countries and 305 care quality indicators. In addition to Australia, the countries examined were New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. The report was written by the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) team at the South Australian Health and Medical...