Development of clinical-quality registries in Australia: the way forward

Maddern, Guy J; Smith, Julian A; Babidge, Wendy; Guy, Gordon S

doi:10.5694/mja11.10779

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To the Editor: Since publishing its first national report on mortality data from 2009,1 the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality (ANZASM) has provided coverage of surgical mortality in participating hospitals across Australia.

1 Australia and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, SA.
2 Research, Audit and Academic Surgery Division, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence: gordon.guy@surgeons.org

Competing interests:

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1. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality: national report 2009. Adelaide: RACGP, 2010. http://www.racs.edu.au/media/365955/anzasm_2009_annual_report.pdf (accessed Jan 2010).
2. Evans SM, Scott IA, Johnson NP. Development of clinical-quality registries in Australia: the way forward Med J Aust 2011; 194: 360-363. <MJA full text>
3. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Towards national indicators on safety and quality in health care. Canberra: AIHW, 2009. (AIHW Cat. No. HSE 75.)

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