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Review article: Implicit bias towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients within Australian emergency departments. STV
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: November 28 Full text
What emergency department wait times do community members want to see displayed? AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: December 7 Full text
When patients behave badly: consent, breach of the duty of care and the law. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: December 2 Full text
Unmet spiritual needs in palliative care: psychometrics of a screening checklist. STV
BMJ Palliative and Supportive Care:2020: December 1 Full text
Effectiveness of an intensive care unit family education intervention on delirium knowledge: a pre-test post-test quasi-experimental study.
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia:2020:67(12):1761-74 Full text
Community-based integrated care versus hospital outpatient care for managing patients with complex type 2 diabetes: costing analysis. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020: December 8 Full text
Barriers and enablers to the implementation of multidisciplinary team meetings: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework. STV
BMJ Quality and Safety:2020: November 27 Full text
Mental health matters: A cross‐sectional study of mental health nurses’ health‐related quality of life and work‐related stressors. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2020: December 5 Full text
Four years later: examining nurse perceptions of electronic documentation over time.
Journal of Nursing Administration:2021:51(1):43-48 Full text
2020 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Circulation:2020: November 20 Full text
Current use and safety of novel oral anticoagulants in adults with congenital heart disease: results of a nationwide analysis including more than 44 000 patients.
European Heart Journal:2020:41(43):4168-77 Full text
Bleeding risk with rivaroxaban compared with vitamin K antagonists in patients aged 80 years or older with atrial fibrillation.
Heart:2020: December 1 Full text
Reduced lymphatic reserve in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(24):2817-29 Full text
Ferric carboxymaltose for iron deficiency at discharge after acute heart failure: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial.
Lancet:2020:396(10266):1895-1904 Full text
Meta-analysis of early intervention versus conservative management for asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis.
American Journal of Cardiology:2021:138(1):85-91 Full text
The role of cardiologists on the stroke unit.
European Heart Journal Supplements:2020: 22(Supplement M):M3-12 Full text
Relation of body mass index to outcomes in acute coronary syndrome. AUS
American Journal of Cardiology:2021:138(1):11-19 Full text
Association between low density lipoprotein and all cause and cause specific mortality in Denmark: prospective cohort study.
BMJ: 2020;371:m4266 Full text
Do lower-carbohydrate diets increase total energy expenditure? An updated and reanalyzed meta-analysis of 29 controlled-feeding studies.
Journal of Nutrition:2020: December 3 Full text
Persistent functional decline following hospitalization with influenza or acute respiratory illness.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: December 8 Full text
Factors associated with low‐intake dehydration among older inpatients—A pilot study.
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: December 9 Full text
The utility of frailty indices in predicting the risk of healthcare associated infections: a systematic review.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: December 10 Full text
Cortical disinhibition in Parkinson’s disease.
Brain:2020:143(11):3408-21 Full text
Safety and efficacy of prednisone versus placebo in short-term prevention of episodic cluster headache: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.
Lancet Neurology:2020: November 24 Full text
Active conventional treatment and three different biological treatments in early rheumatoid arthritis: phase IV investigator initiated, randomised, observer blinded clinical trial.
BMJ: 371:m4328 Full text
Loss of smell in patients with COVID-19: MRI data reveal a transient edema of the olfactory clefts.
Neurology:2020:95(23):e3145-e3152 Full text
Quality of life, functional status and persistent symptoms after intensive care of COVID-19 patients.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: December 10 Full text
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