Clinical guidance

This document provides a standardised approach for clinicians on assessing penicillin allergies and undertaking direct oral penicillin challenges for hospitalised Victorians with a low-risk penicillin allergy.

This guideline discusses the diagnosis, investigation and screening options, and management of down syndrome in neonates.

This guidance provides information and recommendations for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, such as gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, and chronic hypertension.

This guideline provides information and recommendations for the assessment, diagnosis, and management of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP), including the more severe form known as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).

The in-depth case review (IDCR) tool assists health services to use a structured, systems-based approach to reviewing adverse patient safety events (APSE).

This toolkit is for maternity services who are working to reduce the rate of postpartum haemorrhage during childbirth.

This audit tool provides a way of recording and graphing monthly data for data monitoring and measuring. It offers a step-by-step guide on how to identify files for review for process measure audits, so they are randomised.

A comprehensive set of prevention and intervention strategies delivered by staff, to prevent and manage conflict events.

These guidelines help mental health services and clinicians assess, manage and work with people who have made a suicide attempt or are at risk of taking their own lives.