Synopsis

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are intended to improve the quality of clinical care by promoting evidence- based care, reducing inappropriate variation, and producing optimal outcomes for patients. CPGs have been developed at RCH since 1996. These CPGs were focussed on practice at RCH until 2011, when many were adapted for use across Victoria. In 2018, a collaborative between RCH, Queensland Health Clinical Excellence Queensland, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, and Safer Care Victoria was formed.

The aim of this Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (PIC) was to adapt the Victorian and RCH CPGs so that they would be appropriate for use in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. South Australia and Western Australia have recently joined the PIC, and it is hoped that Tasmania, the Northern Territory and ACT will follow shortly. Excitingly, we are almost at the point of having truly national paediatric CPGs in Australia.

Speaker

Associate Professor Mike Starr is a Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Consultant in Emergency Medicine at RCH, and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He’s been involved with the CPGs since the beginning and has led the CPG Development Group for several years.