Preventing emergency readmissions to hospital: A scoping review (UK)
27 January 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 1 more
This report reviews the evidence and potential for use of 'emergency readmissions within 28 days of discharge from hospital' as...
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27 January 2012 by Research Admin in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Diabetes, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases>Risk Assessment, Knowledge Library, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 2 more
Documents levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD), diagnosed and undiagnosed risk factors and clinical management of CVD risk in rural Māori...
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Your Brand for Our Journey Since the New Zealand Government made a commitment to the goal of a Smokefree/ Auahi...
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Events
- Hand Hygiene NZ workshop for gold auditors, 10 February in Auckland
- Public Health Summer School, University of Otago (Wellington)
- NZ Rural General Practice Network Conference 2012
- NZ Bioethics Conference: ‘No Country for Old Men (and Women): Increasing Pressures on the Health Care System’
- 13th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice & the Community
Literature Abstracts
- Community screening for cardiovascular risk factors and levels of treatment in a rural Māori cohort
- The pervasive effects of racism: Experiences of racial discrimination in New Zealand over time and associations with multiple health domains
- Pre-hospital delay in acute coronary syndromes: PREDICT CVD-18
- Prosthetic hip dislocations: Is relocation in the emergency department by emergency medicine staff better?
- Patient satisfaction and outcome using emergency care practitioners in New Zealand
International Literature
- Preventing emergency readmissions to hospital: A scoping review (UK)
- Anticipating implementation of colorectal cancer screening in The Netherlands: A nation wide survey on endoscopic supply and demand
- Incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy during 17 years of a population-based screening program in England
- Lifestyle counseling in routine care and long-term glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol control in patients with diabetes (USA)
- Failures in transition: Learning from incidents relating to clinical handover in acute care (Australia)
Discussion
- 'More heart and diabetes checks' – a new health target for cardiovascular disease and diabetes
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Investment in medicines highest in PHARMAC history
- Estimating the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle intervention programmes to prevent diabetes based on an example from Germany: Markov modelling
- New Zealand in grips of "silent" diabetes epidemic