Serious and Sentinel Events Report 2010/11: Making our hospitals safer
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement
Press Release: Health Quality and Safety Commission, 20 February 2012 A total of 377 serious and sentinel events occurred in...
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Quality of in-hospital cardiac arrest calls: A prospective observational study (England)
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 2 more
Examines the quality and diagnostic accuracy of in-hospital clinical emergency calls for adult patients sustaining an in-hospital cardiac arrest (CA)...
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Health professional networks as a vector for improving healthcare quality and safety: A systematic review (Australia)
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement
Systematic review of studies of professionals' network structures, identifying factors associated with network effectiveness and sustainability, particularly in relation to...
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Fewer mistakes happen in hospitals which are safely staffed
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement
Press Release: New Zealand Nurses Organisation, 20 February 2012 The best way of improving quality and safety in New Zealand...
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Release of Perioperative Mortality Review Committee report
15 February 2012 by HQSC Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement, Hospital Productivity>Theatre (TPOT)/Day Surgery and 1 more
First steps towards national post-surgery mortality review system Having a better understanding of deaths that occur in the days and...
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Health equity in the New Zealand health care system: A national survey
2 February 2012 by Research Admin in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Diabetes, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Knowledge Library, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases>Stroke, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 4 more
A national survey of district health boards (DHBs) was undertaken on macro approaches to chronic condition management with detail on...
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Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency? (UK)
31 January 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement>Leadership, Quality Improvement and 2 more
Introduced into health care in the 1980s in the United States, service-line reporting (SLR) and service-line management (SLM) are one...
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The importance of preparation for doctors' handovers in an acute medical assessment unit: A hierarchical task analysis (UK)
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 1 more
Examines the ideal and actual processes of doctors' handovers in an acute medical assessment unit by means of a hierarchical...
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Serious/sentinel events report to reduce future harm welcome
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement
Press Release: New Zealand Medical Association, 20 February 2012 The NZMA welcomes the release today of the Health Quality and...
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Hand Hygiene New Zealand Implementation Guidelines 2012
17 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement
Hand Hygiene New Zealand's Implementation Guidelines 2012 have now been published. The guidelines, which provide a practical guide to implementing...
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13th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
6 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement
The 13th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia is being jointly hosted by the Australian and New Zealand College...
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Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together (UK)
31 January 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care>Long Term Conditions, Primary Health Care, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 3 more
The UK Department of Health approached The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust for help in supporting the development of its...
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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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News
- The care coordination imperative: Responding to the needs of people with chronic diseases (USA)
- Otago University supports research into veterans' health
- U.S. Health Care: The Good News (TV documentary)
- Serious and Sentinel Events Report 2010/11: Making our hospitals safer
- Serious/sentinel events report to reduce future harm welcome
Documents
- Regional Services Planning: How district health boards are working together to deliver better health services
- Can NHS hospitals do more with less? (UK)
- News and Views - November-December 2011
- Competition, integration and incentives: The quest for efficiency in the English NHS (UK)
- A Guide to Implementing the Maternity Quality & Safety Programme in your DHB
Events
- Population Health Congress 2012 (Australia)
- NZ Association of General Surgeons Annual Meeting 2012
- 8th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium, Channelling the Rivers of Knowledge to Improve Global Policy and Practice
- 2012 National Australian Conference on Evidence Based Clinical Leadership
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress
Literature Abstracts
- Making our hospitals safer: Serious and Sentinel Events reported by District Health Boards in 2010/11
- Prescribing history to identify candidates for chronic condition medication adherence promotion
- Variation in New Zealand hospital outcomes: Combining hierarchical Bayesian modeling and propensity score methods for hospital performance comparisons
- Indigenous and immigrant populations’ use and experience of community pharmacies in New Zealand
- Risk factors for patient-reported medical errors in eleven countries
International Literature
- Who are we reaching through the patient portal: Engaging the already engaged? (USA)
- Why does patient activation matter? An examination of the relationships between patient activation and health-related outcomes (USA)
- Quality of in-hospital cardiac arrest calls: A prospective observational study (England)
- Barriers to staff adoption of a surgical safety checklist (France)
- The importance of preparation for doctors' handovers in an acute medical assessment unit: A hierarchical task analysis (UK)
Discussion
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Cochrane review: Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications
- Diabetes Workforce Service Review
- Warfarin pilot signals new partnerships in health care
- Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)