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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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Investing in e-Health: People, knowledge and technology for a healthy future (papers from the Australian Health Informatics Conference 2014)
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-24 13:25:56.319
This book presents papers from the Australian Health Informatics Conference 2014. With the theme of investing in e-health: people, knowledge…
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Pacific health workforce service forecast: Report to Health Workforce New Zealand and the Ministry of Health
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-24 09:13:02.312
This report considered ways to increase the number of Pacific peoples in the health workforce and improve outcomes for Pacific…
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Reporting Māori participation in paramedic education and the EMS workforce in New Zealand
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-23 15:26:32.421
This study aimed to: i) quantify Māori participation in paramedic education and the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workforce in New…
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Asian Health Research Review 9
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-23 13:02:05.546
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News
- E-cigarette use triples among middle and high school students in the United States in just one year
- Tobacco Control Update - 15 April 2015
- More resources for kidney disease patients
- New pathway to improve outcomes for stroke patients (Waikato DHB)
- The tool that reveals unnecessarily prescribed medications (Radio NZ)
Documents
- Exploring the role of communications in quality improvement: A case study of the 1000 Lives Campaign in NHS Wales
- Improving care delivery through Lean: Implementation case studies (U.S.)
- Shining a light: Safer health care through transparency (National Patient Safety Foundation, U.S)
- Health economics and health policy: Experiences from New Zealand
- Understanding the responsibilities and obligations of the modern paediatric surgeon
Tools
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Systems Map: Overview of factors influencing development of AMR and the interactions between them (England)
- Error-prone abbreviations, symbols and dose designations not to use
- How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
- Delivering major breast surgery safely (excluding reconstruction) as a day case or one night stay (England)
- Guidance for improving supportive care for adults with cancer in New Zealand
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Gender differences in satisfaction ratings for nicotine electronic cigarettes by first-time users
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Hutt Valley, Capital & Coast and the Wairarapa DHBs
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Midland region
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the northern district health boards
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
International Literature
- “Nothing about me without me”: An interpretative review of patient accessible electronic health records
- Community representation in hospital decision making: A literature review (Australia)
- Evaluation of the effect of nurse education on patient-reported foot checks and foot care behaviour of people with diabetes receiving haemodialysis (UK)
- Healthcare interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: A review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development
- Nutrition therapy in critically ill patients- a review of current evidence for clinicians
Case Studies
- Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)
- 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)
