Medication Safety Self Assessment Tools
These self assessments are risk assessment tools specifically designed to help hospitals take a proactive and system-based approach to medication safety. They will assist hospitals in meeting their obligations for accreditation and can drive change by identifying, and measuring, areas for improvement. The tools allow self assessment of the medication safety practices within a hospital, identifcation of improvement opportunities and comparison with the aggregate experience of demographically similar hospitals.
Medication safety self assessment for Australian hospitals
Medication safety self assessment for antithrombotic therapy in Australian hospitals
Indicators for QUM in Australian Hospitals
 This newly revised manual of Indicators for Quality Use of Medicines in Australian Hospitals has been produced by NSW TAG in collaboration with the Clinical Excellence Commission in NSW. The manual will enable hospital managers and clinicians to guide improvements in medication management in all types of hospitals across Australia.
The manual can be downloaded in full or as individual indicators. Where indicators are downloaded individually, we recommend the front section of the manual is also downloaded. The front section contains critical information on using the indicators to facilitate change as well as information on background to the project and the indicator development process.
To facilitate use of the manual, individual indicators may be reproduced with the following conditions:
1. Indicators should be reproduced in their entirety including the copyright statement
2. Excerpts of these indicators may be used providing NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group is acknowledged by referencing the excerpt to the Indicators for Quality Use of Medicines in Australian Hospitals.
Recommended citation:
Indicators for Quality Use of Medicines in Australian Hospitals: NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group, 2007.
Click here to download the manual.
Archived Indicator Documents
Indicators for Drug & Therapeutics Committees (1997)
Manual of Indicators for drug use in Australian
Hospital (1998)
Click here to access NSW TAG archives.
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