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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Who are we reaching through the patient portal: Engaging the already engaged? (USA)
22 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care, Quality Improvement
Primary care practices are increasingly using web-based portals to provide patients with information about their care, offer them with a...
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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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Estimating ICU bed capacity using discrete event simulation (Singapore)
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Hospital Productivity>Ward
This paper aims to develop a discrete event simulation (DES) model to help determine the proper level of ICU bed...
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Expressions of interest sought for a regional palliative care managed clinical network demonstration site
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement
Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) as part of the Ministry of Health is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably...
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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...
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Population Health Congress 2012 (Australia)
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care, Quality Improvement
The 2012 Population Health Congress on the 10th to 12th September at the Adelaide Convention Centre 2012 is organised and...
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Physicians’ ability to predict hospital length of stay for patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency department (United States)
14 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity
Accurate predictions of patient length of stay (LOS) in the hospital can effectively manage hospital resources and increase efficiency of...
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Risk factors for patient-reported medical errors in eleven countries
13 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Knowledge Library and 2 more
The aim of this study was to identify common risk factors for patient-reported medical errors across countries. Data was sourced...
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Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Access to Elective Services, Hospital Productivity
This study aims to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency...
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Patient safety in patients who occupy beds on clinically inappropriate wards: A qualitative interview study with NHS staff (England)
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Hospital Productivity>Ward and 2 more
Qualitative study that explores NHS staff members' perceptions and experiences of the contributory factors that may underpin patient safety issues...
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A person-time analysis of hospital activity among cancer survivors in England
16 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Waits for Cancer Treatment, Hospital Productivity
This study describes the inpatient and day case hospital activity among the population of cancer survivors in England. This is...
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What do we know about patients' perceptions of continuity of care? A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
15 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care>Long Term Conditions, Primary Health Care
The increasing complexity in healthcare delivery might impede the achievement of continuity of care, being defined as ‘one patient experiencing...
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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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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...
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Emergency department crowding: Time for interventions and policy evaluations
14 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity
This review summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding and provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency...
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Regional Services Planning: How district health boards are working together to deliver better health services
13 February 2012 by Research Admin in Quality Improvement
This booklet contains examples of how the new regional approach is contributing to better health services. It provides an early...
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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
Events
- Population Health Congress 2012 (Australia)
- Telehealth - A Call To Arms
- 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
Documents
- Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
- Ministry of Health: Tobacco Target Update: Primary Care - 17 February 2012
- Cessation study finds it's the offer of support that matters....
- Primary Care Success Stories
- Regional Services Planning: How district health boards are working together to deliver better health services
Case Studies
- Early results suggest Whanganui open-access, walk-in 'Quit Clinics' prove very effective
- Early evalution of pilot initiatives shows strong promise for General Practice support for people to quit smoking
- Training-Led Smoking Cessation Strategy Reaps Rewards for Wairarapa
- PHO-based Smokefree Coordinator Workforce an Effective Strategy for Waitemata DHB
- A Tale of Two Systems: A study of how two IT tools are supporting practice staff to deliver ABC
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
- Health and independence report
- 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
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)
- 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)
- Quality of in-hospital cardiac arrest calls: A prospective observational study (England)
- Barriers to staff adoption of a surgical safety checklist (France)
Discussion
- 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
- Role of the doctor consensus statement released
- Effect of lifestyle intervention for people with diabetes or prediabetes in real-world primary care: Propensity score analysis (Netherlands)