Category Archives:Measurement

How safe is your prescribing?

How safe is your prescribing?

We know that there is a large gap between the evidence of how medications should be used, and what happens in practice. It is estimated that between 2 and 3% of hospital admissions in Australia are medication related. What can we do about it? In a study published this month in the MJA, Gillian Caughey […]

Innovations in Measurement

Innovations in Measurement

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition – Bill Gates Innovations in education, nutrition, drugs, and technology can be a powerful force for improving health. But an innovation has no impact unless it reaches the people who need it.  We need to find new ways to […]