Health Targets
Health Targets are a set of national performance measures specifically designed to improve the performance of health services. They provide a focus for action.
Their impact can be measured to see how they are improving health for all New Zealanders.
Health Targets were introduced to the New Zealand health system in 2007/08. They are reviewed annually to ensure they align with government health priorities.
Health Targets are a set of national performance measures specifically designed to improve the performance of health services. They provide a focus for action.
Their impact can be measured to see how they are improving health for all New Zealanders.
Health Targets were introduced to the New Zealand health system in 2007/08. They are reviewed annually to ensure they align with government health priorities.
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Diabetes in pregnancy among indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: A systematic review of the evidence for screening in early pregnancy
posted by Research Admin on 7 May 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Catherine Chamberlain, Bridgette J. McNamara, Emily D. Williams, Daniel Yore, Brian Oldenburg, Jeremy Oats, Sandra Eades.
Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 29(4), 241–256
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School-based programmes for preventing smoking (Cochrane Review)
posted by Research Admin on 3 May 2013
This review investigated whether programmes to prevent young people starting to smoke that have been delivered in schools over the…
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Implementation of a smoke-free policy in a high secure mental health inpatient facility: Staff survey to describe experience and attitudes (Australia)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
In 2008, a new forensic hospital was opened as a totally smoke-free facility. This study describes the attitudes and experience…
International Literature
Safety and acceptability of practice-nurse-managed care of depression in patients with diabetes or heart disease in the Australian TrueBlue study
posted by HIIRC Admin on 10 Apr 2013
The aim of this mixed-methods study was to determine the safety and acceptability of the TrueBlue model of nurse-managed care…
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Timeliness of cancer care from diagnosis to treatment: A comparison between patients with breast, colon, rectal or lung cancer (Canada)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 9 Apr 2013
In this retrospective population-level study, the authors investigate the value in measuring time intervals across cancer sites to identify potentially…
NZ Literature Abstract
Tobacco smoking in adolescent psychiatric outpatients
posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: K. Marie Ditchburn, J. Douglas Sellman.
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 22(3), 254-267.
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Progression of diabetic maculopathy in patients on the Wellington Diabetic Screening Programme initially graded M3
posted by HIIRC Admin on 8 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Neil Avery, Kenneth Chan, Keith Maslin.
New Zealand Medical Journal, 126(1372)
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Palliative care patients’ use of emergency departments
posted by HIIRC Admin on 8 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Ross Lawrenson, James Waetford, Veronique Gibbons, Peter Kirk, Sandra Haggar, Rangimahora Reddy.
New Zealand Medical Journal, 126(1372)
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“When you're desperate you'll ask anybody”: Young people's social sources of tobacco
posted by HIIRC Admin on 3 Apr 2013
Published 2013. Authors: Louise Marsh, Anna Dawson, Rob McGee.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37(2), 155–161
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An update on the management of gout
posted by HIIRC Admin on 17 Apr 2013
bpac (NZ) is an independent organisation that promotes health care interventions which meet patients’ needs and are evidence based, cost…
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Documents
- Evaluation of the first year of the Inner North West London Integrated Care Pilot (England)
- The rise of diabetes - Radio NZ documentary
- The drive for quality: How to achieve safe, sustainable care in our emergency departments (UK)
- Statement of Intent 2013 to 2016: Ministry of Health
- World Health Statistics 2013
Events
- 2013 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) Annual Scientific Meeting (Darwin)
- What if... we could detect type 2 diabetes before it was a problem? (Christchurch)
- Identification of the barriers to the early diagnosis of lung cancer seminar - a mixed methods approach (Auckland)
- 10th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research 2013
- Rotorua General Practice Conference & Medical Exhibition (GP CME) 2013
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
- Bowel Cancer Screening Pilot
- Reducing Inequalities (Central Cancer Network)
Case Studies
- Removing a roadblock to ED patient flow - improving access to telemetry monitoring (Waitemata DHB Health Excellence Awards 2012 poster award winner)
- A simple intervention to improve awareness and documentation of foot examination at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (UK)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
- Māori Diabetes Self Management Education
- Diabetes Self Management Education Programme
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Screening for prostate cancer in New Zealand general practice
- Effects of early exercise engagement on vascular risk in patients with transient ischemic attack and nondisabling stroke
- The role of the emergency department in the acute management of chronic or recurrent pain
- Impact of surgical waiting time on paediatric spinal deformity patients
- Cigarette smoking and risk of breast cancer in a New Zealand multi-ethnic case-control study
International Literature
- In situ simulation: Detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department (U.S.A.)
- Effects of self-management health information technology on glycaemic control for patients with diabetes: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
- 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
- Grand challenges: Integrating mental health care into the non-communicable disease agenda