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This report reviews the literature associated with the development and use of trigger tools to determine rates of harm in health care settings, with particular attention on the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's Global Trigger Tool.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s aged residential care (ARC) programme is pleased to share a collection of personal stories about what’s important to people and their families/whānau when entering ARC in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2019 surgical safety culture survey was undertaken by Mobius Research and Strategy, to assist in evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Safe Surgery NZ programme. This report presents the results of the 2019 survey.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission runs two national surveys every three months to gather information about how people experience health care in Aotearoa New Zealand hospitals and in primary care (going to the doctor or pharmacy).

This evaluation of the trauma rehabilitation collaborative, run from March 2021 to June 2022, is to determine how the collaborative has met the project aims and its performance in meeting the Te Tāhū Hauora strategic priorities.

This pānui is for whānau, families, parents, kaitiaki and caregivers who are trying to decide whether or not to consent to a post-mortem to be undertaken on their baby who has died during the perinatal period.

In this webinar held in February 2023, presenters from Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission, Observatory Village Lifecare and HealthCERT presented on optimising the use of antibiotics in the management of UTI in aged residential care.

The 2017 edition of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Window on the Quality of New Zealand’s Health Care brings our measures up to date and draws out key messages about the quality of New Zealand’s health system.

This report sets out major themes from the results of the adult hospital patient experience survey since its inception in 2014. It covers how responses have changed over that time, and the variation in responses between different groups.

Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau has long had a process in place to screen for post-traumatic amnesia following suspected traumatic brain injury. However, inaccuracies in the way the assessments were performed increased the risk of missing diagnoses.