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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
- Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement
- Evaluation of the Diabetes Nurse Specialist Prescribing project. Report prepared for the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes
- Telehealth support for patients with long term conditions: Evaluation of a rural pilot
- Lessons learnt from attempting to assess the evidence base for a complex intervention introduced into New Zealand general practice
International Literature
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: An overview of systematic reviews (Cochrane Review)
- Review of the evidence on fall prevention in hospitals (USA)
- Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicines use: An overview of systematic reviews
Popular
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Improving Maori health through clinical assessment: Waikare o te Waka o Meihana
- Overview of the Let’s Beat Diabetes evaluation 2009: Final report
- Assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions to prevent obesity: A systematic review of the effectiveness of 16 obesity prevention interventions
- Community Cancer Support Services Pilot Project evaluation
- Review of the Diabetes ‘Get Checked’ programme
International Literature
- Usefulness of Aggressive Behaviour Risk Assessment Tool for prospectively identifying violent patients in medical and surgical units (USA)
- Review of the evidence on fall prevention in hospitals (USA)
- Equity impact of interventions and policies to reduce smoking in youth: Systematic review
- Evaluation of the National Clinical Handover Initiative Pilot Program (Australia)
- Measuring what really matters: Towards a coherent measurement system to support person-centred care (UK)
