Improvement tools and reports
Page content: Acute Pain Management | Change management | Clinical governance | Clinical Handover | Interhospital Patient Transfer | Consumers | Data | Education | Falls | Hand Hygiene | Pressure ulcers | Sustainability | Test results | Process mapping | Venous Thromboembolism
This section of the site lists the safety and quality tools, guidelines, information sheets and reports developed by the VQC for use in health care.
Acute Pain Management
Acute Pain Management Measurement Toolkit (March 2007)
Acute Pain Management Measurement Audit Tools (May 2009)
Managing Your Pain brochure (April 2008)
Managing Your Pain Brochure for Paediatric Patients (November 2008)
Change management
Successfully implementing change (February 2006)
Clinical governance
Better Quality, Better Health Care: A Safety and Quality Improvement Framework for Victorian Health Services (November 2003)
Enabling the consumer role in clinical governance (November 2004)
The Healthcare Board's role in clinical governance (November 2004)
Developing the clinical leadership role in clinical governance (May 2005)
Leading clinical governance in health services (May 2005)
Evaluation Of VQC Better Quality, Better Health Care (May 2005)
Clinical Handover
Clinical Handover
Clinical Handover Information
Sheet (February 2006)
Clinical Handover: Results
arising from a clinical handover survey circulated to all Victorian health
services (July 2006)
Clinical Handover Workshop
Presentations (November 2006)
Pilot Project
Interhospital
Patient Transfer
VQC Interhospital Patient Transfer Workshop
Key Themes (April 2008)
Summary of participant feedback (May 2008)
Consumers
Finding consumers and carers (May 2004)
Consumer Leadership Development
Additional consumer resources are available.
Data
A guide to using data for health care quality improvement (June 2008)
Healthcare Quality and Safety Data Directory (May 2004)
Education
Introduction to Safety and Quality Principles
Education package (March 2007)
Results from the pilot project
Pressure Ulcer Basics - education package for clinicians (December 2007)
Falls
Minimising the risk of falls and falls injuries (August 2004)
Guidelines (August 2004)
Quick reference guide (August 2004)
Research supplement (August 2004)
Education supplement (August 2004)
Tool supplement (August 2004)
Results of the pilot project to evaluate the falls guidelines (December 2006)
Hand hygiene
Hand Hygiene project
Resource manual and education toolkit (April 2006)
Literature review on hand hygiene product selection (March 2006)
Hand hygiene sustainability workshop results (March 2007)
Pressure ulcers
Pressure ulcers
Sustainability
Understanding the Sustainability of Health Programs and Organisational Change
Process mapping
Process mapping - A guide for health service staff (June 2007)
Test results
The impact of communication of test results on appropriate patient care (November 2004)
Venous Thromboembolism
Venous Thromboembolism - case studies (January 2008)
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