Library Services' Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin which includes feature articles across a wide range of topics, new physical and e-books in the Library, and websites of interest.
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Multicomponent interventions reduce high‐risk medications for delirium in hospitalized older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2018: July 23 Full text
National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian clinical guidelines for the management of heart failure 2018. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2018: August 2 Full text
New enhanced influenza vaccines for older Australians: what promise do they hold? AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2018:209(3): 110-12 Full text
Treat the patient, not the pain: using a multidimensional assessment tool to facilitate patient-centered chronic pain care.
Journal of General Internal Medicine:2018:33(8):1235-38 Full text
End-of-life decisions in emergency patients: prevalence, outcome and physician effect
QJM:2018:111(8):549-54 Full text
Update on high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in patients with suspected myocardial infarction.
European Heart Journal Supplements:2018:20(G):G2-G10 Full text
Oxygen therapy in ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
European Heart Journal:2018:39(29):2730-39 Full text
Age and sex are critical factors in ischemic stroke pathology.
Endocrinology:2018:159(8):3120-31 Full text
Prophylactic antimicrobial therapy for acute aspiration pneumonitis.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2018:67(4):513-18 Full text
Peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team: a randomised controlled trial.
Lancet:2018:392(10145):409-18 Full text
Seasonality of acute kidney injury incidence and mortality among hospitalized patients.
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation:2018:33(8): 1354–62 Full text
Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: 23 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study.
BMJ: 2018;362:k2927 Full text
Relationship between the critical shoulder angle and shoulder disease.
JBJS Reviews:2018: August 7 Full text
Trends in rates of lower extremity amputation among patients with end-stage renal disease who receive dialysis.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2018:178(8):1025-32 Full text
The physiology of endocrine systems with ageing.
Lancet Endocrinology and Diabetes:2018:6(8):647-58 Full text
The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
by For this year's AMCD Research Week, Dr Drew Barry presented the keynote address on Monday, showcasing some the impressive work he has done and projects he has involved, in creating biomedical animations.
You can view his work on WEHI.TV
These physiologically accurate computer animations of various molecular processes help us understand these complex processes in ways that written explanations would struggle to evoke.
Much of Dr Barry's work has been pitched at high school level comprehension, including contributing to an online biology course available on Itunes - Biology: Life on Earth from the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
