National medication chart workshop
31 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
This workshop brought DHBs together to review implementation progress and lessons learned, and plan for future developments of the chart.
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31 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
This workshop brought DHBs together to review implementation progress and lessons learned, and plan for future developments of the chart.
29 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
Medicine reconciliation pamphlets for people coming into hospital
11 Oct 2011, Partners in Care
Health managers are being urged to expand the role of consumers in decisions to help lift standards and save money.
7 Oct 2011, Partners in Care
Beverley Johnson shares her extensive experiences of working with hospitals and health organisations in the United States to improve consumer involvement and leadership.
1 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
Purpose: To highlight and reduce the risk of inadvertent under or overdosing with caffeine citrate oral solution solution.
28 Sep 2011
The Commission's monthly newsletter
1 Sep 2011, Medication Safety
Purpose: To highlight the risks for patients on heparin and to promote safer practice.
30 Aug 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee workshop held in Wellington on 11 August 2011
26 Aug 2011, Adverse Events
Attached is the 2010 report from LECG: National quality improvement programme review: Incident Management.
26 Jul 2011, Adverse Events
This paper examines the challenges of investigating clinical incidents through the use of Root Cause Analysis.
1 Jul 2011, Medication Safety
Purpose: To highlight the risks associated with the use of dabigatran
1 Jul 2011, Medication Safety
Historical information from the Safe & Quality Use of Medicines Group, now superseded by the Medication Safety Programme
1 Jul 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Fifth Report provides an accurate estimate of the absolute numbers and rates of perinatal and maternal deaths in New Zealand for 2009.
30 Jun 2011, Medication Safety
Newsletters from SQM Group for the year 2011
17 Jun 2011, Adverse Events
This document provides a draft set of specifications for an IT based information system that will support the national policy for the Management of Incidents.
25 May 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Lancet has published the last article in a series of six papers that have detailed the global extent of the world's 2·6 million third-trimester stillbirths, where they occur, and what can be done to prevent them.
23 May 2011, Adverse Events
In 2007, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare engaged the University of Queensland to learn more about the economic costs of adverse events in Australia.
12 May 2011, Medication Safety
This overview summarised the evidence contained in 37 systematic reviews on consumers' medicine use.
30 Apr 2011
The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Intent for the period 2010 to 2013
13 Apr 2011, Medication Safety
Medication errors are a frequent cause of adverse drug events and a major concern for patient safety. This study compared the predictors of error among seven countries