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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.
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Long-term effects of cardiac rehabilitation in elderly individuals with stable coronary artery disease
- Cohort profile: Te Puawaitanga o Nga Tapuwae Kia Ora Tonu, Life and Living in Advanced Age: A Cohort Study in New Zealand (LiLACS NZ)
- An outbreak of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli urinary tract infection in an elderly population: A case-control study of risk factors
- Screening for nutrition risk and dysphagia among older adults newly admitted to age related residential care facilities in the Waitemata DHB region
- Medical examiner and coroner reports: Uses and limitations in the epidemiology and prevention of late-life suicide
International Literature
- Medical day hospital care for older people versus alternative forms of care (Cochrane review)
- Factors influencing deprescribing habits among geriatricians (Australia)
- A multi-organisation aged care emergency service for acute care management of older residents in aged care facilities (Australia)
- Effects of preventive home visits by district nurses on self-reported health of 75-year-olds (Sweden)
- Nurses' views regarding implementing advance care planning for older people: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies
