western australia for example has implemented a mandatory review of all deaths that occur in public hospitals and private health facilities that provide services for public patients queensland conducts an annual bedside audit where clinicians collect information on certain elements of care to gauge whether expected standards have been met at a national level the royal australasian college of surgeons makes it a requirement to participate in the australian and new zealand audit of surgical mortality as part of the colleges continuing professional development programme the acsqhc also conducts audits to assess compliance with standards most data is focused on volumes of care and resources within the system clinical data is also gathered almost exclusively by specific registries organised by disease targeting specific group of population or hospital based