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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
- Indicators for the Well Child / Tamariki Ora Quality Improvement Framework: September 2014
- Annual update of key results 2013/14: New Zealand Health Survey
- Tobacco use 2012/13: New Zealand Health Survey
- The health of Māori adults and children, 2011–2013
- Indicators for the Well Child / Tamariki Ora Quality Improvement Framework: March 2014
International Literature
- Family-based programmes for preventing smoking (Cochrane review)
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital (Cochrane review)
- Effect of smoke-free legislation on perinatal and child health: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- School-based programmes for preventing smoking (Cochrane Review)
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Metro-Auckland Pacific population health profile
- Health and Independence Report 2013
- The health status of Pacific children and young people in New Zealand
- The health of Māori adults and children
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International Literature
- Children's experiences as hospital in-patients: Voice, competence and work. Messages for nursing from a critical ethnographic study (UK)
- Self-care of school-age children with diabetes: An integrative review
- Improving MMR vaccination rates: Herd immunity is a realistic goal (UK)
- Accuracy of the “traffic light” clinical decision rule for serious bacterial infections in young children with fever: A retrospective cohort study (Australia)
- Health at a glance: Asia/Pacific 2012
