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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
- Primary care for Pacific people: A Pacific and health systems approach: Report to the Health Research Council and the Ministry of Health
- Does a diabetes annual review make a difference?
- Teamwork - general practitioners and practice nurses working together in New Zealand
- A qualitative evaluation of general practitioners' perceptions regarding access to medicines in New Zealand
- Why are there gaps in our management of those with high cardiovascular risk?
International Literature
- Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors (Cochrane review)
- Physician advice for smoking cessation (Cochrane Review)
- Barriers to GPs' use of evidence-based medicine: A systematic review
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- Elective surgical referral guidelines - background educational material or essential shared decision making tool? A survey of GPs' in England
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- The health of New Zealand adults 2011/12: Key findings of the New Zealand Health Survey
- Regional results from the 2011/12 New Zealand Health Survey
- Patient Dashboard: The use of a colour-coded computerised clinical reminder in Whanganui regional general practices
- Why do we not use trained interpreters for all patients with limited English proficiency? Is there a place for using family members?
- New 2011 survey of patients with complex care needs in eleven countries finds that care is often poorly coordinated
International Literature
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- Social determinants of health – What doctors can do (British Medical Association)
- Elective surgical referral guidelines - background educational material or essential shared decision making tool? A survey of GPs' in England
- Health professionals, patients and chronic illness policy: A qualitative study (Australia)
- 'I need her to be a doctor': Patients' experiences of presenting health information from the internet in GP consultations (England)
