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Implementing performance improvement in New Zealand emergency departments: the six hour time target policy national research project protocol

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, February 2012
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Title
Implementing performance improvement in New Zealand emergency departments: the six hour time target policy national research project protocol
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, February 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-12-45
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Peter Jones, Linda Chalmers, Susan Wells, Shanthi Ameratunga, Peter Carswell, Toni Ashton, Elana Curtis, Papaarangi Reid, Joanna Stewart, Alana Harper, Tim Tenbensel

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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 114 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Master 14 12%
Other 10 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 27 23%
Unknown 36 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 6%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Psychology 6 5%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 39 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 April 2012.
All research outputs
#13,128,563
of 22,663,150 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,422
of 7,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#86,879
of 156,309 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#36
of 75 outputs
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