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This investment case for a quality improvement programme to reduce harm caused by clinical deterioration was prepared for the Health Quality & Safety Commission by Sapere Research group.

This paper provides a ‘snapshot’ of current practice in the recognition and management of the deteriorating adult inpatient in New Zealand. It also includes health sector views on emerging themes from international literature.

This is an evidence summary of three potential interventions relating to the deteriorating adult patient.

This document sets out work by the Health Quality & Safety Commission on the patient deterioration programme. It identifies what our programme aims to achieve over five years and how it will do this. It will be supported by annual programme plans.

This report sets out the work of the Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC) from December 2011 to December 2012.

Special Report from the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee on unintentional suffocation, foreign body inhalation and strangulation.

The Ministry of Health has reviewed and updated its recommendations to decrease the risk of food-related choking in babies and young children. The updated advice expands on previous Ministry advice and includes a list of foods considered to be of a h

The Committee's report to the Commission.

A report describing the epidemiology of drowning in 0-24 year olds in New Zealand to identify where appropriate interventions might decrease child and youth mortality.

This report concerns the deaths of children and youth from January 2002 to December 2005.