Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia)
Standard 5 - Clinical care

Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia) ACQS25-5.5: 15-30(5) Medicines used to maximise benefit and minimise harm

What does ACQS25-5.5 require?

The provider must encourage and support individuals, aged care workers, registered health practitioners and allied health professionals to use medicines in a way that maximises benefits and minimises the risk of harm.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 1 controls across 1 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • core-26.2 Medication: workers understand effects, side-effects and incident steps

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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