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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
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Regional results from the 2011-2013 New Zealand Health Survey
- Strategic overview: Cardiovascular disease in New Zealand
- OECD Health Data 2013: How does New Zealand compare
- Improving the productivity of elective surgery through a new ‘package of care’
- Health expenditure trends in New Zealand 2000–2010
International Literature
- International profiles of health care systems 2014, including New Zealand, published by the Commonwealth Fund
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home palliative care services for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers (Cochrane review)
- Reducing ineffective practice: Challenges in identifying low-value health care using Cochrane systematic reviews (UK)
- A meta-analysis of “hospital in the home”
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- New 2011 survey of patients with complex care needs in eleven countries finds that care is often poorly coordinated
- The state of the art? An analysis of New Zealand’s population-based funding formula for health services
- Nurse turnover in New Zealand: Costs and relationships with staffing practises and patient outcomes
- Healthcare services funded by Counties Manukau District Health Board for people in the last year of life
- Mortality and hospitalisation costs of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in New Zealand
International Literature
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- Inpatient care for people with diabetes: The economic case for change (England)
- International profiles of health care systems 2014, including New Zealand, published by the Commonwealth Fund
- Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2012 (OECD)
- Does better disease management in primary care reduce hospital costs? (England)
