dc.contributor.author |
Jones, Peter |
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dc.contributor.author |
Chalmers, L |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wells, Linda |
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dc.contributor.author |
Ameratunga, Shanthi |
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dc.contributor.author |
Carswell, Peter |
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dc.contributor.author |
Ashton, Toni |
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dc.contributor.author |
Curtis, Elana |
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dc.contributor.author |
Reid, Mary-Jane |
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dc.contributor.author |
Stewart, Joanna |
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dc.contributor.author |
Harper, A |
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dc.contributor.author |
Tenbensel, Timothy |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
England |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-02-25T21:28:16Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2012 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
BMC Health Services Research 12(Jan):10 pages Article number 45 2012 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21728 |
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dc.description.abstract |
In May 2009, the New Zealand government announced a new policy aimed at improving the quality of Emergency Department care and whole hospital performance. Governments have increasingly looked to time targets as a mechanism for improving hospital performance and from a whole system perspective, using the Emergency Department waiting time as a performance measure has the potential to see improvements in the wider health system. However, the imposition of targets may have significant adverse consequences. There is little empirical work examining how the performance of the wider hospital system is affected by such a target. This project aims to answer the following questions: How has the introduction of the target affected broader hospital performance over time, and what accounts for these changes? Which initiatives and strategies have been successful in moving hospitals towards the target without compromising the quality of other care processes and patient outcomes? Is there a difference in outcomes between different ethnic and age groups? Which initiatives and strategies have the greatest potential to be transferred across organisational contexts? |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
2012 Jones et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
BMC Health Services Research |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1472-6963/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.subject |
Emergency Service, Hospital |
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dc.subject |
Health Policy |
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dc.subject |
Health Services Research |
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dc.subject |
Healthcare Disparities |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Interviews as Topic |
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dc.subject |
Length of Stay |
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dc.subject |
New Zealand |
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dc.subject |
Oceanic Ancestry Group |
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dc.subject |
Organizational Case Studies |
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dc.subject |
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) |
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dc.subject |
Patient Readmission |
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dc.subject |
Program Development |
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dc.subject |
Qualitative Research |
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dc.subject |
Quality Assurance, Health Care |
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dc.subject |
Waiting Lists |
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dc.title |
Implementing performance improvement in New Zealand emergency departments: the six hour time target policy national research project protocol. |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1186/1472-6963-12-45 |
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pubs.issue |
Jan |
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pubs.volume |
12 |
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dc.description.version |
VoR - Version of Record |
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dc.identifier.pmid |
22353694 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
314893 |
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pubs.org-id |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Population Health |
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pubs.org-id |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
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pubs.org-id |
Health Systems |
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pubs.org-id |
School of Medicine |
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pubs.org-id |
Surgery Department |
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pubs.org-id |
Te Kupenga Hauora Maori |
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pubs.org-id |
TKHM Teaching |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1472-6963 |
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dc.identifier.pii |
1472-6963-12-45 |
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pubs.number |
45 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2012-08-14 |
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pubs.dimensions-id |
22353694 |
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