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The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) is a starting point for analysing variation in a local area, and for developing service improvement activities to address variation.

This literature review focuses on methods used overseas for identifying and reducing unwarranted variation in health care with a view of informing the approach in New Zealand.

This document, prepared by Sapere Research Group, discusses variation in the way health services are delivered by individual clinicians, and across geographic areas.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) is a starting point for analysing variation in a local area, and for developing service improvement activities to address variation.

This is the final report on the collaborative to prevent central line associated bacteraemia (CLAB).

KPMG has developed a report on the development of patient experience indicators for New Zealand for the Commission.

The Commission's annual report for the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013 is available to download below.

Health Quality and Safety Indicator report 'Describing the quality of New Zealand's health and disability services'.

The Commission's annual report for the period 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 is available to download below.

In its Fifth Report to the Minister of Health (2009), the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) noted that systems to review non-traffic deaths are inconsistent and less well developed compared with systems to review traffic deaths.