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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
- Cardiovascular disease: To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease: DHB Toolkit
- Alleviating the Burden of Chronic Conditions in New Zealand (The ABCC NZ Study): Disease specific analysis
- Resuming previously valued activities post-stroke: who or what helps?
- Improving coronary heart disease self-management using mobile technologies (Text4Heart): A randomised controlled trial protocol
- Acute Predict: A clinician-led cardiovascular disease quality improvement project (Predict-CVD 12)
International Literature
- A systematic review of telerehabilitation in stroke care
- Cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart disease: An overview of Cochrane systematic reviews
- Organised inpatient (stroke unit) care for stroke (Cochrane review)
- A randomised controlled trial of a nurse practitioner-managed cardiac surgery follow-up intervention (Canada)
- Impact of cardiac rehabilitation on mortality and cardiovascular events after percutaneous coronary intervention in the community (USA)
