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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
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Implementing large-scale quality improvement: Lessons from The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care™ (England)
posted by Research Admin on 4 May 2012
This paper focuses on facilitating large-scale quality improvement in health care, and specifically understanding more about the known challenges associated...
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International Literature
Intentional rounding: what is the evidence?
posted by Research Admin on 25 Apr 2012
In January 2011 the UK Prime Minister called for changes in the way nurses deliver care. Following a number of...
International Literature
Patient safety in patients who occupy beds on clinically inappropriate wards: A qualitative interview study with NHS staff (England)
posted by Research Admin on 21 Feb 2012
Qualitative study that explores NHS staff members' perceptions and experiences of the contributory factors that may underpin patient safety issues...
International Literature
Estimating ICU bed capacity using discrete event simulation (Singapore)
posted by Research Admin on 20 Feb 2012
This paper aims to develop a discrete event simulation (DES) model to help determine the proper level of ICU bed...
International Literature
Nurses' perceptions of an electronic patient record from a patient safety perspective: A qualitative study (Sweden)
posted by Research Admin on 17 Feb 2012
This small-scale qualitative study from Sweden explores nurses' perceptions of using an electronic patient record in everyday practice, in general...
International Literature
Occupancy data: Unravelling the mystery (Australia)
posted by Research Admin on 2 Feb 2012
The main purpose of this qualitative study was to clarify the method used to calculate bed occupancy rates in a...
International Literature
Using Six Sigma methodology to reduce patient transfer times from floor to critical-care beds (USA)
posted by Research Admin on 20 Jan 2012
In response to concerns regarding delays in transferring critically ill patients to intensive care units (ICU), a quality improvement project,...
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Factors affecting the care of acutely unwell ward patients: A multiple case study
posted by Research Admin on 1 Feb 2012
Published 2011. Author: Sara Quirke.
PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington
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Patient Messaging Service at MDHB
posted by Research Admin on 18 Jan 2012
Press Release: Mid Central DHB, 30/11/11 It’s easy to use, available 24 hours a day and lets friends and family...
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Patient contact person system to help patients and staff
posted by Research Admin on 18 Jan 2012
Press Release: MidCentral DHB, 30/11/11 The ‘nominated contact people’ of acute adult patients staying at Palmerston North Hospital will now...
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Projects
- Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Diabetes Inpatient Pilot
- Releasing Time to Care – The Productive Ward, Bay of Plenty
- Productive Wards - Waikato Hospital (Inpatient areas and Emergency Department)
- Releasing Time To Care - The Productive Ward
Literature Abstracts
- Patient experience of source isolation: Lessons for clinical practice
- Quality of resuscitation orders in general medical patients
- The effect of a simulation-based training intervention on the performance of established critical care unit teams
- Nursing contribution to the rehabilitation of older patients: Patient and family perspectives
- Factors affecting the care of acutely unwell ward patients: A multiple case study
International Literature
- Implementing large-scale quality improvement: Lessons from The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care™ (England)
- Intentional rounding: what is the evidence?
- Association of changes in the use of board-certified critical care intensivists with mortality outcomes for trauma patients at a well-established level I urban trauma center (USA)
- Improving patient safety to reduce preventable deaths: The case of a California safety net hospital (USA)
- The effect of a hospital nurse staffing mandate on patient health outcomes: Evidence from California’s minimum staffing regulation