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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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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Health loss in New Zealand: A report from the New Zealand Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study, 2006–2013
- Ethnic discrimination prevalence and associations with health outcomes: Data from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of secondary school students in New Zealand
- Evaluation of an instrument to measure teamwork in multidisciplinary critical care teams
- No-fault compensation for treatment injury in New Zealand: Identifying threats to patient safety in primary care
- Complications and mortality in older surgical patients in Australia and New Zealand (the REASON study): A multicentre, prospective, observational study
International Literature
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital (Cochrane review)
- Enhanced recovery after pancreatic surgery: A systematic review of the evidence
- Preventing the progression to Type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults at high risk: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical interventions
- Systematic review of outcomes used to evaluate enhanced recovery after surgery
- Enhanced recovery pathways lead to an improvement in postoperative outcomes following esophagectomy: Systematic review and pooled analysis
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- 12 hour shifts and rates of error among nurses: A systematic review
- Health loss in New Zealand: A report from the New Zealand Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study, 2006–2013
- Insulin errors in a hospital setting [abstract]
- No-fault compensation for treatment injury in New Zealand: Identifying threats to patient safety in primary care
- Development of an electronic patient prioritization tool for clinical pharmacist interventions
International Literature
- The effectiveness of protocol drive, nurse-initiated discharge in a 23-h post surgical ward: A randomized controlled trial (Australia)
- Pharmacotherapy for mild hypertension (Cochrane Review)
- Smartphone apps for calculating insulin dose: A systematic assessment
- Comparing two safety culture surveys: Safety attitudes questionnaire and hospital survey on patient safety (U.S.)
- Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies
