Life-threatening conditions

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Outcome Area
METEOR identifier:	624344
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Description:	A patient with a life-threatening condition due to a suspected bacterial infection receives prompt antibiotic treatment without waiting for the results of investigations.

Relational attributes
Indicator sets linked to this outcome area:	Clinical care standard indicators: antimicrobial stewardship Health, Standard 12/09/2016 Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Retired 25/01/2022
Indicators linked to this outcome area:	Antimicrobial stewardship: 1a-Median time to first dose of antibiotics for patients with suspected bacterial meningitis, or for actual or suspected severe sepsis Health, Standard 12/09/2016 Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Retired 25/01/2022
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Reference documents:	ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2014. Antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC.