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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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- The Quit Group service longitudinal client survey six month follow-up
- The combined effect of very low nicotine content cigarettes, used as an adjunct to usual Quitline care (nicotine replacement therapy and behavioural support), on smoking cessation: A randomised controlled trial
- The WERO group stop smoking competition: Main outcomes of a pre- and post- study
International Literature
- Printed quit-pack sent to surgical patients at time of waiting list placement improved perioperative quitting (Australia)
- Effect of offering different levels of support and free nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: Randomised controlled trial (England)
- Who enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of Quitline support? Comparison of participants versus nonparticipants (Australia)
- Print-based self-help interventions for smoking cessation (Cochrane review)
- Association between tobacco plain packaging and Quitline calls: A population-based, interrupted time-series analysis (Australia)
