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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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Documents
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- Perioperative Mortality in New Zealand: Fourth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
- Evaluation of the 20,000 Days Campaign
- The efficacy of patient initiated follow up clinics in secondary care: A systematic review
- Quality dimensions of the elective waiting time goals – high level review
- Elective services productivity and workforce projects: Final report - June 2012
International Literature
- Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures (Cochrane review)
- Enhanced recovery after pancreatic surgery: A systematic review of the evidence
- 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
- The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway for patients undergoing colorectal surgery: An update of meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Health and Independence Report 2013
- The determinants of health for Pacific children and young people in New Zealand
- Evaluation of the 20,000 Days Campaign
- Increasing productivity, reducing cost and improving quality in elective surgery in New Zealand – the Waitemata DHB joint arthroplasty pilot
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
International Literature
- Effectiveness of nurse-led preoperative assessment services for elective surgery
- Fulfilling the potential: A better journey for patients and a better deal for the NHS (England)
- The effectiveness of protocol drive, nurse-initiated discharge in a 23-h post surgical ward: A randomized controlled trial (Australia)
- The anaesthetic pre-admission clinic is effective in minimising surgical cancellation rates (Australia)
- How queuing theory relates to wait times
