Children in the Emergency Department (ED) deteriorate unexpectedly. Paediatric sentinel events and coroners’ cases have recurring themes related to parent/carers' inability to effectively escalate their concerns about their child's deterioration whilst in the ED.
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Ensuring early intervention and preventative care programs focus on improving outcomes for priority maternal and child populations is a key recommendation in the latest maternity and childhood data report.
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- Maternity and newborn
- Paediatric
- Safety cultures
With the support of Adult Retrieval Victoria, Ambulance Victoria, the Paediatric Clinical Network, Safer Care Victoria is introducing the Paediatric Critical Health Resource Information System (Paediatric CHRIS) on 16 March 2022 across Victoria.
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Greater insights into the longer-term impact of COVID-19 in the Victorian community as well as the effect of vaccination on health outco
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- Consumer engagement
- Patient experience and outcomes
- Safety cultures
- Consumer engagement
- Patient experience and outcomes
- Safety cultures
New clinical pathways that have proven to reduce harm from sepsis are now available for Victorian clinicians.
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- Paediatric
- Emergency care
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common childhood surgeries and is usually performed to treat snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea or frequent tonsillitis.
New resources are now available to help families decide whether their child needs surgery to remove their tonsils.
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