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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
- Level 2 Advance Care Planning Practitioner Training Review
- ‘No matter what the cost’: A qualitative study of the financial costs faced by family and whānau caregivers within a palliative care context
- Approaches to capturing the financial cost of family care-giving within a palliative care context: A systematic review
- Indigenous people's experiences at the end of life
- An examination of the research priorities for a hospice service in New Zealand: A Delphi study
International Literature
- Evidence-based guidelines for pressure ulcer management at the end of life
- Place of death of people living with Parkinson’s disease: A study in 11 countries (including New Zealand)
- Life after the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP): A qualitative study of critical care practitioners delivering end-of-life care
- Dying in the hospital setting: A systematic review of quantitative studies identifying the elements of end-of-life care that patients and their families rank as being most important
- Managing the advanced cancer patient in the Australian emergency department environment: Findings from a national survey of emergency department clinicians
