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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
- An evaluation of the implementation, outcomes and opportunities of the Care Capacity Demand Management (CCDM) Programme
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- Elective services productivity and workforce projects: Final report - June 2012
- Effects of introducing an enhanced recovery after surgery programme for patients undergoing open hepatic resection
International Literature
- Enhanced recovery after pancreatic surgery: A systematic review of the evidence
- International profiles of health care systems 2014, including New Zealand, published by the Commonwealth Fund
- Preoperative alcohol consumption and postoperative complications: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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- 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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Documents
- Comparing Lean and quality improvement
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- Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population (UK)
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- INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) (United States)
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Trends in service design and new models of care: A review
- Te Ohonga Ake: The health of Māori children and young people with chronic conditions and disabilities in New Zealand
- Communicating changes in a patient's condition: A critical incident approach
- Improving acute patient flow and resolving emergency department overcrowding in New Zealand hospitals — the major challenges and the promising initiatives
- The determinants of health for Pacific children and young people in New Zealand
International Literature
- Bedside handover: Faster and safer? (Australia)
- Lean thinking in emergency departments: A critical review
- What makes a top hospital? Leadership (UK)
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Usefulness of Aggressive Behaviour Risk Assessment Tool for prospectively identifying violent patients in medical and surgical units (USA)
