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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
- ANZSN renal supportive care guidelines 2013
- Understanding the new HbA1c units for the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes
- Alleviating the burden of chronic conditions in New Zealand (ABCC NZ Study): Literature review
- New guidelines for the management of chest pain: Lessons from a recent audit in Tauranga, New Zealand
- ‘Your Heart Forecast’: A new approach for describing and communicating cardiovascular risk?
International Literature
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes (Cochrane review)
- Facilitators and barriers of implementing the chronic care model in primary care: A systematic review
- Quality of guidelines on the management of diabetes in pregnancy: A systematic review
- Barriers to GPs' use of evidence-based medicine: A systematic review
- 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
- Diabetes: To reduce the incidence and impact of diabetes: DHB Toolkit
- Improving Maori health through clinical assessment: Waikare o te Waka o Meihana
- Alleviating the burden of chronic conditions in New Zealand (ABCC NZ Study): Literature review
- New guidelines for the management of chest pain: Lessons from a recent audit in Tauranga, New Zealand
- Cardiovascular disease: To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease: DHB Toolkit
International Literature
- Leadership facilitation strategies to establish evidence-based practice in an acute care hospital (U.S.)
- Facilitators and barriers of implementing the chronic care model in primary care: A systematic review
- Elective surgical referral guidelines - background educational material or essential shared decision making tool? A survey of GPs' in England
- Guide to using quality improvement tools to drive clinical audits (UK)
- Healthcare interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: A review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development
