A system for developing reasonable adjustments to the application of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards for adult patients with intellectual disability in Australian hospital settings.

health intellectual disability quality and safety standards reasonable adjustments

Journal

Internal medicine journal

ISSN: 1445-5994

Titre abrégé: Intern Med J

Pays: Australia

ID NLM: 101092952

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 Jan 2024

Historique:

received: 16 02 2023

accepted: 14 12 2023

medline: 22 1 2024

pubmed: 22 1 2024

entrez: 22 1 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Health Care mandates the application of the eight National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards to minimise high-risk adverse events in hospital settings for all Australian patients. It acknowledges that adults with intellectual disability require reasonable adjustments to the application of the standards to optimise the impact of the quality and safety measures for this group. The paper proposes a system whereby reasonable adjustments can be developed for this population. First, particular criteria, items or actions of a standard are selected for the formulation of reasonable adjustments. Second, the adjustments are broken down into categories of alterations to usual knowledge, process, content and organisation involved in compliance with the chosen aspect of the standard. Third, the categories of reasonable adjustments are simultaneously influenced and shaped by aspects of living with intellectual disability, disability supports and a health-disability sectoral interface.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1111/imj.16321 PMID: 38251817

pubmed: 38251817

doi: 10.1111/imj.16321

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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