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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
- The state of the art? An analysis of New Zealand’s population-based funding formula for health services
- Gender differences in satisfaction ratings for nicotine electronic cigarettes by first-time users
- Indicators of inequality for Māori and Pacific people
- Are Maori under-served for cardiac interventions?
- The readmission rate as an indicator of the quality of elective surgical inpatient care for the elderly in New Zealand
International Literature
- Triaging women with acute coronary syndrome: A review of the literature.
- Trends in lifetime risk and years of life lost due to diabetes in the USA, 1985—2011: A modelling study
- Estimating the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle intervention programmes to prevent diabetes based on an example from Germany: Markov modelling
- Smoking as a risk factor for stroke in women compared with men: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- A retrospective analysis of amputation rates in diabetic patients: Can lower extremity amputations be further prevented? (Sweden)
