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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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- Improving care delivery through Lean: Implementation case studies (U.S.)
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Orthopaedic Quality Improvement Collaborative Change Package
- People in control of their own health and care: The state of involvement (King's Fund, UK)
- The critical role of the pathologist in determining eligibility for active surveillance as a management option in patients with prostate cancer: Consensus statement
- Comparing Lean and quality improvement
NZ Literature Abstracts
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
- Level 2 Advance Care Planning Practitioner Training Review
- A bi national registry of adults with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension complicating Congenital Heart Disease
- Bridging the goal intention–action gap in rehabilitation: A study of if-then implementation intentions in neurorehabilitation
- A systematic review of studies investigating the care of stroke survivors in long-term care facilities
International Literature
- Evaluation of the effect of nurse education on patient-reported foot checks and foot care behaviour of people with diabetes receiving haemodialysis (UK)
- Nutrition therapy in critically ill patients- a review of current evidence for clinicians
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of adding pharmacists to primary care teams to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with Type 2 diabetes: Results from a randomized controlled trial (Canada)
- Exercise rehabilitation following intensive care unit discharge for recovery from critical illness (Cochrane review)
- Evidence-based guidelines for pressure ulcer management at the end of life
Case Studies
- Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)
- Developing person-centred analysis of harm in a paediatric hospital: A quality improvement report (UK)
- Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment (UK)
- Improving patient safety through feedback on prescribing errors (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
