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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.
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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.
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Cardiovascular disease: To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease: DHB Toolkit
- 2010 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. Part 1: Executive summary
- Acute Predict: A clinician-led cardiovascular disease quality improvement project (Predict-CVD 12)
- The management of acute coronary syndrome patients across New Zealand in 2012: Results of a third comprehensive nationwide audit and observations of current interventional care
- Patients admitted with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in New Zealand in 2007: Results of a second comprehensive nationwide audit and a comparison with the first audit from 2002
International Literature
- Cochrane review: Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease
- How cardiac patients describe the role of their doctors in smoking cessation: A qualitative study (Australia)
- Triaging women with acute coronary syndrome: A review of the literature.
- Do quality improvements in primary care reduce secondary care costs (England)?
- Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: Meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium (Germany)
