Mortality: Historical summary 1948–2012
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-30 14:35:51.535
These tables contain mortality data (numbers and age-standardised rates) by sex for certain causes of death for each year from…
June issue of Best Practice magazine (bpac) focuses on antibiotic use
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-29 15:36:21.892
The June 2015 issue of Best Practice magazine (bpac) focuses on antibiotic use. Contents include: Upfront: Time to reduce antibiotic…
Implementing Medicines New Zealand 2015 to 2020
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-29 08:50:45.412
Medicines New Zealand (the New Zealand medicines strategy) provides the overarching framework to govern the regulation, procurement, management and use…
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Documents
- Presentations from a forum on the implementation of ‘A Quality Framework and Suite of Quality Measures for the Emergency Department Phase of Acute Patient Care in New Zealand’
- Emergency Department Non Cardiac Chest Pain patient discharge information sheet
- Chest Pain Pathways in use around New Zealand
- Christchurch hospital flowchart for managing chest pain presentations to the ED - latest version Oct 2015
- Knowledge and Skills Framework for Cancer Nursing 2014
Tools
- Prevention is better than cure: Five tips for keeping older people healthy and out of hospital during winter (bpac)
- Sorting things out: Preventing or resolving problems, and making complaints
- Personal Space: Support workers in your home
- Starting off right: Setting up a good relationship with your support workers
- P2P Series - case studies of hospitals in the U.S. improving environments to better support the health of their employees (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Case Studies
- Standardising the organisation of clinical equipment on surgical wards at North Bristol NHS Trust: A quality improvement initiative
- Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)
- Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)
- Briefings and debriefings in one surgeon's practice
- Use of nurse-led telephone follow-up as a sole method of assessing patients after nasal surgery (England)
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Gender differences in satisfaction ratings for nicotine electronic cigarettes by first-time users
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Hutt Valley, Capital & Coast and the Wairarapa DHBs
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Midland region
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the northern district health boards
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
International Literature
- “Nothing about me without me”: An interpretative review of patient accessible electronic health records
- Community representation in hospital decision making: A literature review (Australia)
- Achieving greater consistency in telehealth project evaluations to improve organisational learning
- Evaluation of the effect of nurse education on patient-reported foot checks and foot care behaviour of people with diabetes receiving haemodialysis (UK)
- Healthcare interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: A review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development