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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.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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Investing in e-Health: People, knowledge and technology for a healthy future (papers from the Australian Health Informatics Conference 2014)
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-24 13:25:56.319
This book presents papers from the Australian Health Informatics Conference 2014. With the theme of investing in e-health: people, knowledge…
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Pacific health workforce service forecast: Report to Health Workforce New Zealand and the Ministry of Health
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-24 09:13:02.312
This report considered ways to increase the number of Pacific peoples in the health workforce and improve outcomes for Pacific…
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Reporting Māori participation in paramedic education and the EMS workforce in New Zealand
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-23 15:26:32.421
This study aimed to: i) quantify Māori participation in paramedic education and the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workforce in New…
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Asian Health Research Review 9
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-23 13:02:05.546
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Tools
- Error-prone abbreviations, symbols and dose designations not to use
- Aiming for Excellence - RNZCGP standard for New Zealand general practice, 2011-2014
- How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
- Delivering major breast surgery safely (excluding reconstruction) as a day case or one night stay (England)
- Guidance for improving supportive care for adults with cancer in New Zealand
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Reorienting the New Zealand health care system to meet the challenge of long-term conditions in a fiscally constrained environment
- Youth’12 overview: The health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students in 2012
- Health status of New Zealand European, Māori, and Pacific patients with diabetes in 242 New Zealand general practices
- Te Kapunga Putohe (The Restless Hands): A Maori Centred Nursing Practice Model
- A short report on integrated care initiatives in selected New Zealand Health Networks
International Literature
- The implementation of intentional rounding using participatory action research (Australia)
- Bedside handover: Faster and safer? (Australia)
- Qualities of exemplary nurse leaders: Perspectives of frontline nurses (Canada)
- IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global estimates of the prevalence of diabetes for 2011 and 2030
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
Case Studies
- Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)
- Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
- Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment (UK)
- Improving patient safety through feedback on prescribing errors (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England)
