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SSI orthopaedic monitoring tool - variable life-adjusted display (VLAD) report
The orthopaedic monitoring tool (VLAD report) is a tool to track orthopaedic surgical site infections (SSI) in your DHB. It is updated quarterly.
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Risk factors differ for Gram-negative surgical site infection following hip and knee arthroplasty: an observational study from a national surveillance system
This article describes describe risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) caused by aerobic Gram-negative organisms after hip and knee arthroplasty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Open Book: CVC removal (July 2015)
This report alerts providers to key findings of a recent review, and highlights changes put in place to stop such an event happening again.
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Successful Safe Surgery NZ programme finishes
The Health Quality & Safety Commission-led Safe Surgery NZ programme, which has greatly improved the way surgical operations are performed in Aotearoa New Zealand, finished in July 2021. This article looks at the achievements of the programme.
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Surgical briefings support practical decision making
Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon at Counties Manukau Health, share how start-of-list briefings support their decision making.
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Video: Surveying surgical site infections
The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's approach to surveillance.
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SSIIP skin antisepsis guide
This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to use skin antisepsis preparation more effectively to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.
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Information about the Safe Surgery NZ programme quality and safety marker
This factsheet is provided to support district health board (DHB) surgical teams in their work to measure the impact of the teamwork and communication interventions and submit quality and safety marker (QSM) data to the Health Quality & Safety Commis
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Video: Antibiotic Intervention
The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's guidelines for the appropriate use of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis – the first in a series of interventions.
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Shared goals of care forms for use in hospital
There are three shared goals of care forms. As we wanted to make these forms available as quickly as possible, we have not been able to complete our usual robust quality improvement approach.