Medication safety
The Department of Health oversees a range of strategies to reduce the risk of patient harm from medication-related incidents. These include providing support and expert medication safety advice to public and private health providers and developing and issuing patient safety notifications, fact sheets, practice guidelines, forms and charts.
Guidelines
- Aminoglycoside Dosing in Adults guideline (PDF 931 kB)
- Anticoagulant for hospitalised adult patients (PDF 2431 kB)
- Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) (PDF 541 kB)
- Iron polymaltose slow intravenous infusion guideline (PDF 255 kB)
- Paracetamol - Guideline for safe paracetamol use (PDF 464 kB)
- 2020 Prescribing Electrolyte Disturbances in Adults (PDF 259 kB)
- Prescribing Intravenous Fluids for Adults (PDF 364 kB)
- Warfarin (PDF 576 kB)—Guidelines for management of Warfarin in the community
- Venous thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention
Resources
Contact
Medication Safety
Email: MedicationSafety@health.qld.gov.au
Last updated: 8 March 2023
