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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.

This document gives hospital staff practical guidance on how to implement a robust pressure injury (PI) measurement approach, as part of wider PI prevention and management activities.

Evaluation of Patient Safety Week 2018, an awareness-raising week held on 4–10 November focused on infection prevention and control.

This report by Joanna Hikaka and Ngaire Kerse was commissioned by the Health Quality & Safety Commission as a ‘thought-piece on Māori and aged residential care (ARC)’.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Intent for the period 2020–24.

In 2019, the Health Quality & Safety Commission completed a self-review, based on the State Services Commission’s Performance Improvement Framework (PIF).

The Commission has developed a new co-design resource: a factsheet for hospitals to give to consumers who are considering joining the Kōrero mai/Talk to me co-design team. This was originally published in June 2017 and was updated in October 2020.

Between October 2017 and June 2018, the Commission worked with six early implementation sites to make improvements to their systems through testing the national vital signs chart, New Zealand early warning score and other tools and guidance.

This A6 sticker can be used to identify patients who have had a rapid response activation.