SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
QAA No. 2/2003
DECLARED QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY TO WHICH PART VC OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 APPLIES
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Item Description of Quality Assurance Activity
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1. Person engaging in activity: The Australian Cardiac Surgery Research Institute (ACSRI)
Title: Cardiac Surgery Database Project.
Description: The Activity involves collecting and standardising patients’ surgical and clinical data in Cardiac Surgery Units to:
- provide national as well as local level information about the quality of cardiac surgery;
- collate risk-adjusted data for research, risk assessment and outcome prediction;
- establish appropriate benchmarking standards for selected surgical procedures; and
- improve the quality of patient care through developing effective peer review mechanisms.
2. Person engaging in activity: Murray Plains Division of General Practice.
Title: Small Hospital Clinical Risk Management Program.
Description: The Activity involves screening hospital medical records to identify adverse events and select cases for review.
- Person engaging in activity: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Title: Practice Improvement Program for Rural Obstetricians and Anaesthetists.
Description: The Activity involves open discussions of the outcomes of obstetric care based on a structured process for reviewing perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity.