scholarly journals Acknowledgement of "no fault" medical injury: review of patients' hospital records in New Zealand

BMJ ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 326 (7380) ◽  
pp. 79-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
Medical Injury

scholarly journals Asthma Terminology and Classification in Hospital Records

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten McKenzie ◽  
Sue Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Centre ◽  
Large Teaching Hospital ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Current Classification ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Clinical Terminology ◽  
Relevant Detail

Asthma is a national health priority area in Australia, and there is significant interest in capturing relevant detail about hospitalisations as a result of asthma. A public submission received by the National Centre for Classification in Health from a large teaching hospital in Victoria suggested that current classification terminology in ICD-10-AM did not adequately reflect the terms recorded in clinical inpatient records, and that patterns and severity of asthma better reflected current clinical terminology in Australian hospitals. The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of the public submission and inform future changes to ICD-10-AM. A representative sample of over 3000 asthma records across Australia and New Zealand were extracted, and the asthma terminology documented and codes assigned were recorded and analysed. The study concluded that there was little support for either pattern terminology or the current classification terminology; however, severity of asthma was commonly used in asthma documentation.

Cost of medical injury in New Zealand: A retrospective cohort study

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brown ◽  
Colin Mcarthur ◽  
Lynette Newby ◽  
Roy Lay-Yee ◽  
Peter Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Health Care Resources ◽  
Medical Injury ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
The Cost

Objective To estimate the cost of treating medical injury associated with hospital admissions in New Zealand and the patient characteristics of costly adverse events. Methods As part of the New Zealand Quality in Healthcare Study (NZQHS), a retrospective examination of medical records in 13 public hospitals identified the occurrence of clinical procedures and hospital bed days attributable to adverse events. The prices charged to foreign patients were used to estimate the cost of the health care resources used. Results 850 adverse events were identified in the NZQHS which cost an average of $NZ 10 264 per patient. For New Zealand, adverse events are estimated to cost the medical system $NZ 870 million, of which $NZ 590 million went toward treating preventable adverse events. The results suggest that up to 30% of public hospital expenditure goes toward treating an adverse event. The results also suggest that older patients, neonates and those with moderately serious co-morbidity tended to have more costly adverse events. Conclusions Adverse events lead to a significant use of health care resources in New Zealand. These findings suggest that substantial resources could be saved by eliminating preventable adverse events.

Compensation for Medical Injury in New Zealand: Does “No-Fault” Increase the Level of Claims Making and Reduce Social and Clinical Selectivity?

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Davis ◽  
Roy Lay-Yee ◽  
Julie Fitzjohn ◽  
Phil Hider ◽  
Robin Briant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Medical Injury

scholarly journals Mental Disorders Forecast Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in 1.7 Million New Zealanders

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 183-184
Author(s):  
Leah Richmond-Rakerd ◽  
Stephanie D'Souza ◽  
Barry Milne
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Preventable Risk Factor

Abstract Neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), have an outsized impact on disability and loss of independence in older adults. As such, there is a growing need to identify modifiable risk factors for ADRD at the population level. We conducted a nationwide administrative-register study to investigate mental disorders as a potential preventable risk factor for later-life ADRD. Data were drawn from the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure, a collection of whole-of-population administrative data sources linked at the individual level by a common spine. We identified all individuals born in New Zealand between 1928-1967 and followed them for three decades (N = 1,711,386; observation period = 1988-2018; age at baseline = 21-60 years). Diagnoses of mental disorders were ascertained from public-hospital records. Diagnoses of ADRD were ascertained from public-hospital records, mortality records, and pharmaceutical records. Individuals with a mental disorder were at elevated risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias relative to those without a mental disorder. This prospective association was evident in both men and women, across age, and after accounting for pre-existing physical diseases. If associations are causal, ameliorating mental disorders could extend population healthspan and reduce the societal burden of neurodegenerative diseases.

Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Primary Distance Indicators

1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
J. D. Pritchard ◽  
W. Tobin ◽  
J. V. Clausen ◽  
E. F. Guinan ◽  
E. L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Eclipsing Binaries ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Distance Indicators

Our collaboration involves groups in Denmark, the U.S.A. Spain and of course New Zealand. Combining ground-based and satellite (IUEandHST) observations we aim to determine accurate and precise stellar fundamental parameters for the components of Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries as well as the distances to these systems and hence the parent galaxies themselves. This poster presents our latest progress.

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

A Cytochemical Study of Glucose-6-Phosphatase (G-6-PASE) in Cells Participating in Atherogenesis of Rabbit Aorta

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 460-461
Author(s):  
Sidney D. Kobernick ◽  
Edna A. Elfont ◽  
Neddra L. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Metabolism ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Rabbit Aorta ◽  
Plaque Formation ◽  
Metabolic Changes ◽  
Atherosclerotic Plaques ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Cellular Alteration ◽  
New Zealand White Rabbits

This cytochemical study was designed to investigate early metabolic changes in the aortic wall that might lead to or accompany development of atherosclerotic plaques in rabbits. The hypothesis that the primary cellular alteration leading to plaque formation might be due to changes in either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism led to histochemical studies that showed elevation of G-6-Pase in atherosclerotic plaques of rabbit aorta. This observation initiated the present investigation to determine how early in plaque formation and in which cells this change could be observed.Male New Zealand white rabbits of approximately 2000 kg consumed normal diets or diets containing 0.25 or 1.0 gm of cholesterol per day for 10, 50 and 90 days. Aortas were injected jin situ with glutaraldehyde fixative and dissected out. The plaques were identified, isolated, minced and fixed for not more than 10 minutes. Incubation and postfixation proceeded as described by Leskes and co-workers.

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