The New Zealand medical journal
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To investigate how quality and patient safety domains are being taught in the pre-registration curricula of health profession education programmes in New Zealand. ⋯ Although the building blocks for improving the quality and safety of healthcare are present, this national study of multiple health professional pre-registration education programmes has identified teaching gaps in patient safety and improvement science methods and tools. Failure to address these gaps will compromise the ability of new graduates to successfully implement and sustain improvements.
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To describe the epidemiology of injuries sustained by older adult trauma patients admitted to hospitals in the Midland region (population 886,000) of New Zealand. ⋯ These findings illustrate the growing volumes and changing epidemiology of both major and minor trauma affecting older persons hospitalised following trauma in one of the four health regions of New Zealand. There is a need to prepare for an increase in demand for trauma services to meet the needs of an ageing population in New Zealand.
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Multicenter Study
Medication-related patient harm in New Zealand hospitals.
The purpose of this study is to identify patterns of medication-related harm from a national perspective, and to use this information to inform decisions on where to focus medication safety efforts. This study updates a 2013 study using the same methodology. ⋯ This paper confirms earlier work that medication-related harms are common, occur both in hospitals and in the community, and are a substantial burden for patients and our healthcare system. Work is underway at local and national levels to decrease this harm, with a focus on the high-risk medicines most commonly implicated.