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Clinical Governance Assessment Project: Final Report on a National Health Professional Survey and Site Visits to 19 New Zealand DHBs

The Clinical Governance Assessment Project (CGAP) was jointly commissioned by the National Health Board, Health Quality and Safety Commission and the DHBs through DHBSS. The research…

Clinical Governance Assessment Project: Analysis of Three Quality and Safety Questions in a National Survey of New Zealand Health Professionals

The Clinical Governance Assessment Project (CGAP) was jointly commissioned by the National Health Board, the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) and the District Health Boards…

Attitudes towards the Surgical Safety Checklist and its use in New Zealand operating theatres

The Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative was established by the World Alliance for Patient Safety as part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) efforts to reduce…

Report: Towards a value proposition scoping the cost of falls (August 2012)

This short scoping report seeks to express the value of preventing falls that lead to harm. The purpose is to inform where the Health Quality &…

Cost benefit analysis of the surgical safety checklist

Sapere Research Group undertook a cost benefit analysis of the WHO surgical safety checklist for the Health Quality & Safety Commission. The report concludes there is…

Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Thousands of people each year experience some degree of TBI, which is identified by confusion or disorientation, loss of consciousness, post-traumatic amnesia and other neurological abnormalities…

Alcohol-related injury: An evidence-based literature review

This review focuses on research that considers the role of alcohol in causing injury and the effectiveness of educational and environmental strategies in preventing alcohol-related injury.…

Review of Swim and Survive programmes to provide a more unified approach

Providing Swim and Survive programmes is the responsibility of a number of organisations and agencies in New Zealand. Prior to Swim and Survive programmes many people…

Literature Review from BoP DHB - Excellence through Patient and Family Centred Care

The Excellence through Patient and Family Centred Care Project aims to identify best practices and bring about system changes that enable the Bay of Plenty Health…

The involvement of alcohol consumption in the deaths of children and young people in New Zealand during the years 2005–2007

While it is commonly accepted that alcohol misuse is harmful, very little is known about the effects of alcohol on the lives of children in New…