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…
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…
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…
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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