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Video: Clipping not shavingThe video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's guidelines for clipping not shaving – the third in a series of interventions.
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Presentations from Putting prevention first: Leadership and action on preventing healthcare associated infectionsPresentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's workshop Putting prevention first: Leadership and action on preventing healthcare associated infections held on 17 May 2018.
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Family of measuresWatch 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.
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Creating a driver diagramThis video provided by the IHI, helps us to understand how we use the driver diagram concept as a tool to describe the system within which we undertake quality improvement activity.
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Quality improvement toolkit using falls prevention as a topic of interestThe Health Quality & Safety Commission developed a quality improvement toolkit in 2016 as part of its focus on reducing harm from falls.
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Guidance for preventing and controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in New Zealand aged residential careThis guidance document and supporting resources provide practical assistance to aged residential care facilities in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Webinar: Caring for complex older peopleDr Michal Boyd presented a webinar on Thursday 21 May 2020, 'Caring for complex older people: tips, tricks and tales from the trenches', in association with Mobile Health.
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Hand hygiene promotional materialsPromotional materials from Hand Hygiene New Zealand
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Surgical site infection rate is higher following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosedThis paper by Dr Arthur Morris, Dr Sally Roberts, Nikki Grae and Dr Chris Frampton highlights increased rates of infection following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed.
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Teach back training toolkit (March 2014)This toolkit, produced by Iowa Health, the Picker Institute, Des Moines University and Health Literacy Iowa, is to help all health care providers learn to use teach-back—every time it is indicated—to support patients and families throughout the...