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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.
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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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- Cardiovascular disease: To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease: DHB Toolkit
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery in New Zealand’s Auckland region: A comparison between the clinical priority assessment criteria score and the actual clinical priority assigned
- Cholecystectomy following acute presentation to a major New Zealand metropolitan hospital: Change to the timing of surgery is needed
- Diabetes outpatient care before and after admission for diabetic foot complications
International Literature
- Effectiveness of nurse-led preoperative assessment services for elective surgery
- Be careful with triage in emergency departments: Interobserver agreement on 1,578 patients in France
- Association of ICU or hospital admission with unintentional discontinuation of medications for chronic diseases (Canada)
- Does nurse case management improve implementation of guidelines for cardiovascular disease risk reduction?
- The higher risk general surgical patient: Towards improved care for a forgotten group (UK)
