Patient safety
Fact sheet
Safe and high quality care for people with intellectual disability
This fact sheet provides clinicians with strategies to support improvements in the quality of healthcare for people with intellectual disability.
Fact sheet
Intellectual disability: person-centred care
This fact sheet provides information to support clinicians to provide better health care for people with intellectual disability. It focuses on person-centred care strategies.
Fact sheet
Intellectual disability: governance
This fact sheet provides information to support better health care for people with intellectual disability. It identifies the clinical governance system essential for person-centred care for people with intellectual disability.
Briefing paper
Measuring value in new health technology assessments: a focus on robotic surgery in public hospitals
This paper draws on the experience of Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS) in Queensland and the processes it undertook to purchase the Mako robotic system for hip and knee replacements and how it was implemented into a major public hospital. The case study provides some insights that can potentially be adapted to a...
Conference paper
Influence of the built environment on patient safety and well-being: a functional perspective
In healthcare facilities, patient safety and well-being are known to be influenced by the built environment (BE). However, mechanisms linking BE to patient safety and wellbeing are not well-understood, which hinders the prevention and mitigation of undesired outcomes.