Aim To assess the occurrence and impact of adverse events in New Zealand public
hospitals. Methods Two-stage retrospective review of 6579 medical records, selected by …

Medical practice variation (MPV) is marked, apparently ubiquitous across the health sector,
well documented, and continues to be a focus of professional and policy interest. MPV have …

Aims To assess the preventability and clinical context of adverse events identified in New
Zealand public hospitals. Methods Two-stage retrospective review of 6579 medical records …

Objective To investigate whether the risk of motorcycle crash related injuries is associated
with the conspicuity of the driver or vehicle. Design Population based case-control study …

Summary Background New Zealand has a substantial indigenous minority—the Māori—that
has considerably worse health status than the majority population. We aimed to assess …

There are well-established frameworks for comparing the performance of health systems
cross-nationally on multiple dimensions. A sub-set of such comprehensive schema is taken …

Aims. To identify substantive findings of potential clinical and managerial significance from a
regional feasibility study of adverse events (AEs). Methods. A standardised protocol using …

Objectives: To assess the occurrence, impact and preventability of adverse events recorded
in New Zealand public hospitals. Methods: A two-stage retrospective review was carried out …

OBJECTIVE: To describe changes in aged care residents' dependency over a 20-year
period. DESIGN: All residents in 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2008 were assessed using the …

In this article, we examined the effect of gender concordance on physicians' perception of
their patients and of their medical condition, analyzing a data set of 8,258 visit …