INTRODUCTION Medication errors have been associated with poor patient outcomes and pose significant public health consequences. Establishing medication safety quality indicators is crucial to capturing the pervasiveness of preventable errors and is a fundamental first step in the process of improvement. In this article, a study is presented in which a set of medication prescribing and monitorin...

BACKGROUND The potential for natural environments to be salutogenic has received growing interest from epidemiologists, but there has been no critical examination of the extent to which associations between green space and health might vary according to the indicator of green space coverage used. METHODS Three different indicators of green space coverage were derived for a set of 268 small ar...

BACKGROUND As a result of increasing urbanisation, people face the prospect of living in environments with few green spaces. There is increasing evidence for a positive relation between green space in people's living environment and self-reported indicators of physical and mental health. This study investigates whether physician-assessed morbidity is also related to green space in people's livi...

BACKGROUND The movement of medical education into the community has accelerated the development of a new model of general practice in which core clinical services are complemented by educational and research activities involving the whole primary care team. AIM To compare quality indicators, workload characteristics, and health authority income of general practices involved in undergraduate m...

The last few years has seen a significant increase in the attention paid to leadership New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) sector, particularly guiding documents. While these provide greater clarity than previously on expectations around practice, understanding of what means and how it is implemented different contexts still needed. This article based study exploring educational practis...