Improvement & Innovation
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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Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement
posted by Research Admin on 8 May 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Don Husereau, Michael Drummond, Stavros Petrou, Chris Carswell, David Moher, Dan Greenberg, Federico Augustovski, Andrew H. Briggs, Josephine Mauskopf, Elizabeth Loder.
BMC Medicine, 11:80
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Case Study
Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
The Health Foundation’s MAGIC (Making good decisions in collaboration) improvement programme aims to support clinical teams in primary and secondary…
Document
Making health services adolescent friendly: Developing national quality standards for adolescent friendly health services (World Health Organization)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 5 Apr 2013
This guidebook sets out the public health rationale for making it easier for adolescents to obtain the health services that…
International Literature
Enhancing frontline clinical leadership in an acute hospital trust (UK)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Apr 2013
This qualitative study reports on a tailored leadership programme delivered to 22 ward managers in one National Health Service Trust.…
International Literature
What determines patient satisfaction with surgery? A prospective cohort study of 4709 patients following total joint replacement (UK)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Apr 2013
This prospective cohort study investigates the factors which influence patient satisfaction with surgical services and explores the relationship between overall…
NZ Literature Abstract
New Zealand's unique maternity system
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Celia P. Grigg, Sally K. Tracy.
Women and Birth, 26(1), e59-e64
News Item
Project reduces infections in Hawke’s Bay Hospital
posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Apr 2013
Jo Goodhew media release, 11 April 2013 Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew has congratulated Hawke’s Bay District Health Board for…
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Events
- The 2013 Harkness Report-Back Seminar: Strategies to Improve Care Integration - Lessons From Rural Patient Centred Medical Homes (Auckland)
- 3rd Australasian Compensation Health Research Forum 2013 (Sydney)
- Today's Research: Tomorrow's Health Registration - Women's and Children's Health (Palmerston North)
- 2nd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control 2013 (Switzerland)
- Identification of the barriers to the early diagnosis of lung cancer seminar - a mixed methods approach (Auckland)
Documents
- Enabling people to live well: Fresh thinking about collaborative approaches to care for people with long-term conditions (UK)
- Patient safety campaign aims to save lives and reduce harm
- Evaluation of the first year of the Inner North West London Integrated Care Pilot (England)
- Section 88 Maternity Service Payment Changes
- Integrating human factors with infection prevention and control (UK)
Projects
- Electronic MDM (Multi Disciplinary Meeting) Tool - Northern Cancer Network
- ‘Shared care’ health records now on-line in ED - Wairarapa DHB
- National Policy Framework: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention in adult hospitalised patients in NZ
- NZ Electronic Prescription Service (NZePS)
- Electronic Patient File Transfer (NZ-GP2GP)
Case Studies
- Implementing shared decision making: Clinical teams’ experiences of implementing shared decision making as part of the MAGIC programme (UK)
- A simple intervention to improve awareness and documentation of foot examination at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (UK)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
- Implementation of the Flinders Program by a Primary Health Organisation
- The Samoan Self Management Education Programme for People with Long Term Health Conditions
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Screening for prostate cancer in New Zealand general practice
- The role of the emergency department in the acute management of chronic or recurrent pain
- Patient and family experiences of palliative care in hospital: What do we know? An integrative review
- New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators 2011
- New Zealand National Hand Hygiene Compliance Audit: March 2013
International Literature
- The time-efficiency principle: Time as the key diagnostic strategy in primary care (UK)
- Cost effectiveness of patient education for the prevention of falls in hospital: Economic evaluation from a randomized controlled trial (Australia)
- In situ simulation: Detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department (U.S.A.)
- Differences in cancer awareness and beliefs between Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK (the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership): Do they contribute to differences in cancer survival?
- The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership: An international collaboration to inform cancer policy in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom