Health and independence report
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Access to Elective Services, Shorter Waits for Cancer Treatment, Shorter Stays in ED, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Diabetes, Increased Immunisation, Hospital Productivity, Help for Smokers to Quit, Knowledge Library, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 7 more
The Health and Independence Report is published annually and looks at the public funds that are allocated to health and...
—Wellington: Ministry of Health. Read MoreFeatured
International Literature
Hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction before and after implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free policy in Uruguay
16 February 2012 by Research Admin in Help for Smokers to Quit, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases
Stimulated by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, many countries in Latin America adopted comprehensive smoke-free policies. In March...
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Poststroke fatigue: Does group education make a difference? A randomized pilot trial
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Knowledge Library, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases>Stroke, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 1 more
This pilot trial evaluated an educational fatigue management intervention in stroke survivors. Participants were 19 individuals 3 to 18 months...
—Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 3 February [Epub before print] Read MoreLiterature Abstract
Indigenous and immigrant populations’ use and experience of community pharmacies in New Zealand
14 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care, Quality Improvement, Knowledge Library and 1 more
The authors investigated what services indigenous (Māori) and immigrant populations use pharmacies for, and how long pharmacy staff spend interacting...
—Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18 January [Epub before print] Read MoreEvent
8th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium, Channelling the Rivers of Knowledge to Improve Global Policy and Practice
9 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement
The organisers of this conference encourage researchers, practitioners and citizens (consumers) to attend to work together to close the gap...
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Internet chemotherapy information: Impact on patients and health professionals (UK)
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Waits for Cancer Treatment
The authors investigated the impact of internet chemotherapy information (ICI) on patient care and analysed health professionals’ (HPs’) attitudes towards...
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Variation in New Zealand hospital outcomes: Combining hierarchical Bayesian modeling and propensity score methods for hospital performance comparisons
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Knowledge Library, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases>Stroke, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services>Cardiovascular Diseases and 4 more
The authors "formulate the problem of hospital performance comparisons within the framework of potential outcomes and illustrate an approach to...
—Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 4 February [Epub before print] Read MoreEvent
New Zealand Society for Oncology 2012 Conference
13 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Waits for Cancer Treatment
The 2012 meeting will be held at the James Cook Hotel in Wellington May 2-4. The aim is to bring...
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How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
7 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 2 more
As part of their campaign to transform healthcare using 21st century technology and practices, 2020health held an all day Summit...
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Tools
- How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
- Delivering major breast surgery safely (excluding reconstruction) as a day case or one night stay (England)
- Guidance for improving supportive care for adults with cancer in New Zealand
- Using social media to improve healthcare quality (Canada)
- Aiming for Excellence - RNZCGP standard for New Zealand general practice, 2011-2014
Literature Abstracts
- Social smokers' management of conflicted identities
- 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
- Health and independence report
- Poststroke fatigue: Does group education make a difference? A randomized pilot trial
International Literature
- Integrating an automated diabetes management system into the family management of children with type 1 diabetes: Results from a 12-month randomized controlled technology trial (USA)
- Association of coexisting diabetes and depression with mortality after myocardial infarction (Netherlands)
- 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)
- Effect of working consecutive night shifts on sleep time, prior wakefulness, perceived levels of fatigue and performance on a psychometric test in emergency registrars (Australia)
Discussion
- The Diabetes Excess Weight Loss (DEWL) Trial: A randomised controlled trial of high-protein versus high-carbohydrate diets over 2 years in type 2 diabetes [in press]
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Estimating the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle intervention programmes to prevent diabetes based on an example from Germany: Markov modelling
- A community controlled smoking cessation programme: ABC for Maori communities
- Four out of ten patients are not taking statins regularly during the 12 months after an acute coronary event