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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Supporting mental health staff following exposure to occupational violence – staff perceptions of ‘peer’ support. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2020: November 25 Full text
Hospital workforce engagement and inpatient mortality rate: findings from the English National Health Service Staff Surveys.
Journal of General Internal Medicine:2020:35(12):3465-70 Full text
A practical approach for the use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays in the evaluation of patients with chest pain.
American Journal of Cardiology:2021:139:1-7 Full text
Substituting inpatient rehabilitation beds for home‐based multidisciplinary rehabilitation: a qualitative study of patient perceptions. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: November 26 Full text
Costs and consequences of using average demand to plan baseline nurse staffing levels: a computer simulation study.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2021:30(1):7-16 Full text
Healthcare professionals’ views of working with medical interpreters in a cancer setting: an exploratory study. SVHM
Journal of Cancer Education:2020: November 23 Full text
Healthcare worker's perspectives on use of memes as an implementation strategy in infection prevention: an exploratory descriptive analysis.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: November 26 Full text
The impact of surgical count technology on retained surgical items rates in the Veterans Health Administration.
Journal of Patient Safety:2020:16(4):255-58 Full text
Metal hypersensitivity screening among frontline healthcare workers—a descriptive study.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2020: November 25 Full text
Ten‐year outcomes of the first ‘one‐stop haematuria clinic’ in an Australian public hospital. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: November 24 Full text
Trends in practice: attitudes and challenges in the diagnosis, treatment and management of HIV infection in Australia. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: December 11 Full text
Polypharmacy and the use of low or limited value medications in advanced cancer. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: December 11 Full text
The effectiveness of hospital in motion, a multidimensional implementation project to improve patients’ movement behavior during hospitalization.
Physical Therapy:2020:100(12):2090-98 Full text
Ischaemic heart disease mortality increased with weekend admission: results from a large, comprehensive admission cohort in Australia. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: November 27 Full text
Multimodal CT or MRI for IV thrombolysis in ischemic stroke with unknown time of onset.
Neurology:2020:95(22):e2954-64 Full text
Serum potassium in chronic kidney disease: prevalence, patient characteristics and clinical outcomes.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: December 13 Full text
Effect of CPAP therapy on kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Chest:2020: December 13 Full text
Effect of therapeutic suggestions during general anaesthesia on postoperative pain and opioid use: multicentre randomised controlled trial.
BMJ: 371:m4284 Full text
Association between neuraxial anaesthesia or general anaesthesia for lower limb revascularisation surgery in adults and clinical outcomes: population based comparative effectiveness study.
BMJ:2020:371:m4104 Full text
Corticosteroid therapy is associated with improved outcome in critically ill COVID-19 patients with hyperinflammatory phenotype.
Chest:2020: December 13 Full text
End-of-life care in intellectual disability: a retrospective cross-sectional study.
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care:2020:10(4):469-77 Full text
Diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease: The call for interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative care - A systematic review of the literature. AUS
Journal of Interprofessional Eduction:2020: December 8 Full text
Out of sight, out of mind: long-term outcomes for people discharged home, to inpatient rehabilitation and to residential aged care after stroke. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2020: December 14 Full text
Access denied: the shortage of digitized fitness resources for people with disabilities.
Disability and Rehabilitations:2020: December 11 Full text
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation: a pragmatic effectiveness trial of a nonpharmacologic alternative for the treatment of postoperative pain.
Pain Medicine:2020: 21(Suppl. 2):S53-61 Full text
Neural correlates of sign language production revealed by electrocorticography.
Neurology:2020:95(21):e2880-89 Full text
The Babinski sign in Renaissance paintings—a reappraisal of the toe phenomenon in representations of the Christ Child: observational analysis.
BMJ: 371:m4556 Full text
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