Australia

The annually updated Care Guidelines span the full spectrum of healthcare, including outpatient, inpatient, step-down rehabilitation, home healthcare, chronic and behavioural care. They provide much more than just decision support criteria, driving high quality care through such tools as care pathway tables, flagged quality measures and clinical evidence that is integrated through references, footnotes, and annotated bibliographies.

Australian clients are already using Care Guidelines software to address prevailing healthcare issues:

• Inpatient admission/procedure criteria, presenting discrete and actionable criteria to assist judgement
• Care pathways, which describe key care steps and milestones that move a patient toward optimal treatment and recovery
• Goal lengths of stay, which establish an evidence-based target, based on the best available medical research; with this, users can confidently transition patients to alternate and more efficient levels of care.

• Specific criteria for imaging, diagnostic testing, injectables and more, incorporate the latest research and results of published trials

• Care Guidelines interactive software enables quality improvement and cost efficiency through the targeting and reduction of inappropriate care; it not only identifies potential gaps in care, but also provides reports about why variances are occurring — and thus how they can be reduced