Published articles
The articles collated here relate to our work in health quality improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and are co-written by our staff and clinical leads.
The articles collated below relate to our work in health quality improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and are co-written by our staff and clinical leads.
The articles offer insights into the challenges, innovations and solutions that impact the quality of health care in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Some articles are hosted on academic journal websites and are not open access. To access the full text of those articles, please contact your local Te Whatu Ora district library or organisational or local library.
Advance care planning
Tō tatou reo – Our voice: advance care planning in Aotearoa New Zealand. Goodwin J | Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen | August 2023 | Link
Adverse events
Using triggers in primary care patient records to flag increased adverse event risk and measure patient safety at clinic level. Eggleton KS, Dovey SM | New Zealand Medical Journal | March 2014 | Link
COVID-19
Using REACH, a new modelling and forecasting tool, to understand the delay and backlog effects of COVID-19 on New Zealand's health system. McBride P, Hoang T, Hamblin R, Li Y, Shuker C, Wilson J, Bramley D | New Zealand Medical Journal | October 2021 | Link
Infection prevention and control
Planning and executing a national point prevalence study: a blueprint for the future. Roberts SA, Barratt R, Morris AJ, Grae N | New Zealand Medical Journal | October 2023 | Link
Sources of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in New Zealand acute hospitals. Barratt R, Clendon G, Gibson B, Roberts SA | New Zealand Medical Journal | October 2022 | Link
Aotearoa New Zealand point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections. Barratt R, Roberts S, Morris A, Grae N | Infection, Disease & Health | June 2020 | Link
Healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: time to reduce the harm caused by a largely preventable event. Roberts SA, Grae N, Muttaiyah S, Morris AJ | New Zealand Medical Journal | February 2020 | Link
Getting surgical antibiotic prophylaxis right, lessons from the National Orthopaedic Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme: a call for action! Morris AJ, Roberts SA, Grae N, Jowitt D | New Zealand Medical Journal | February 2019 | Link
The New Zealand Surgical Site Infection Improvement (SSII) Programme: a national quality improvement programme reducing orthopaedic surgical site infections. Morris AJ, Roberts SA, Grae N, Hamblin R, Shuker C, Merry AF | New Zealand Medical Journal | July 2018 | Link
Systematic review of a patient care bundle in reducing staphylococcal infections in cardiac and orthopaedic surgery. Ma N, Cameron A, Tivey D, Grae N, Roberts S, Morris A | ANZ Journal of Surgery | February 2017 | Link
A new surgical site infection improvement programme for New Zealand: early progress. Morris AJ, Panting AL, Roberts SA, Shuker C, Merry A | New Zealand Medical Journal | May 2015 | Link
Mental health and addiction
Closing the equity gap as we move to the elimination of seclusion: early results from a national quality improvement project. Bensemann C, Maxwell D, O’Keeffe K, Tresize L, Wairama K, Keelan W | Australasian Psychiatry | September 2023 | Link
Mortality review
Te pou: an indigenous framework to evaluate the inclusion of family voice in family violence homicide reviews. Roguski M, Grennell D, Dash S, De’Haan I, Cram F, Gulliver P | Journal of Family Violence | October 2022 | Link
Getting the story right: reflecting on an indigenous rubric to guide the interpretation of mortality data. Cram F, Cannell H, Gulliver P | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | September 2021 | Link
Family violence experts in the criminal court: the need to fill the void. Henaghan M, Short J, Gulliver P | Psychiatry, Psychology and Law | April 2021 | Link
Patient experience surveys
Patient experience surveys are vital in the twenty-first century: let’s put some myths to rest. Gerard C, O’Brien I, Shuker C, Swanson J, Hamblin R | New Zealand Medical Journal | January 2024 | Link
Patient deterioration
Comparison of the Aotearoa New Zealand early warning score and national early warning score to predict adverse inpatient events in a vital sign dataset. Mohan C, Entezami P, John S, Hewitt J, Sylevych A, Psirides A | Anaesthesia | March 2023 | Link
Introduction of a standardised maternity early warning system: indicative data from a before-and-after study at a large pilot site before national rollout in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drake M, Austin G, Dann L, Li Y, Shuker C, Psirides A | Anaesthesia | August 2021 | Link
System safety
The context and influences of safety: An exploration of social networks, actions, and behaviour. Wailling J, Long JC, Stolarek I | International Journal for Quality in Health Care | November 2020 | Link
Reducing perioperative harm in New Zealand: the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, briefings and debriefings, and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. Perry W, Civil I, Mitchell S, Shuker C, Merry A | New Zealand Medical Journal | October 2015 | Link
Partnership and rigor in improving patient care. Merry AF, Hamblin R | New Zealand Medical Journal | September 2015 | Link
The Health Quality & Safety Commission: making good health care better. Shuker C, Bohm G, Bramley D, Frost S, Galler D, Hamblin R, Henderson R, Jansen P, Martin G, Orsborn K, Penny A, Wilson J, Merry A | New Zealand Medical Journal | January 2015 | Link
Transparency
Progress in public reporting in New Zealand since the Ombudsman’s ruling, and an invitation. Shuker C, Bohm G, Hamblin R, Simpson A, St George D, Stolarek I, Wilson J, Merry AF | New Zealand Medical Journal | June 2017 | Link
Public reporting of health care performance data: what we know and what we should do. Hamblin R, Shuker C, Stolarek I, Wilson J, Merry AF | New Zealand Medical Journal | March 2016 | Link
The measurement of New Zealand health care. Hamblin R, Bohm G, Gerard C, Shuker C, Wilson J, Merry A | New Zealand Medical Journal | May 2015 | Link
Last updated: 11th January, 2024
