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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
- A ‘whole of system’ approach to compare options for CVD interventions in Counties Manukau
- Alleviating the Burden of Chronic Conditions in New Zealand (The ABCC NZ Study): Disease specific analysis
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery in New Zealand’s Auckland region: A comparison between the clinical priority assessment criteria score and the actual clinical priority assigned
- Diabetes outpatient care before and after admission for diabetic foot complications
- Assessing Māori/non-Māori differences in cardiovascular disease risk and risk management in routine primary care practice using web-based clinical decision support: (PREDICT CVD-2)
International Literature
- Using the Red/Yellow/Green Discharge Tool to improve the timeliness of hospital discharges (USA)
- Facilitators and barriers of implementing the chronic care model in primary care: A systematic review
- Accuracy of the “traffic light” clinical decision rule for serious bacterial infections in young children with fever: A retrospective cohort study (Australia)
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people (Cochrane Review)
- Electronic patient journey boards a vital piece of the puzzle in patient flow (Australia)
