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In this sixth report, the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee has examined perioperative mortality in New Zealand during 2010–2014 for two new areas of interest.

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.

The Global Trigger Tool (GTT) is a methodology developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to identify patient harm that occurs in health care organisations.

This is a summary version of the Commission's video on effective use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

Lana Bartlett describes her family's experiences communicating with health care staff during her father's stay in hospital.

Watch Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), show how to use a 'family of measures' to monitor the impact of quality improvement work.

Over the past 30 years, the health quality movement has striven to reduce unwarranted variation. In this paper we examine the New Zealand context.

This document is a copy of the online adult hospital outpatient experience survey questionnaire.