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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Patterns and preferences for accessing health and aged care services in older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: November 6 Full text
How much impact do antimicrobial surfaces really have on healthcare-acquired infection?
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2020:71(8):1814-16 Full text
Impact of a novel antimicrobial surface coating on health care–associated infections and environmental bioburden at 2 urban hospitals.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2020:71(8):1807-13 Full text
Evaluating the effect of automated hand hygiene technology on compliance and c. difficile rates in a long-term acute care hospital.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: November 10 Full text
Light-guided nudging and data-driven performance feedback improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses and doctors.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: November 10 Full text
Automated identification of adults at risk for in-hospital clinical deterioration.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020: November 12 Full text
Process evaluation of an implementation trial to improve the triage, treatment and transfer of stroke patients in emergency departments
3 trial): a qualitative study. SVHM
Implementation Science:2020: November 4 Full text
Tranexamic acid in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (STOP-AUST): a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial. AUS
Lancet Neurology:2020: October 28 Full text
Effect of monitoring surgical outcomes using control charts to reduce major adverse events in patients: cluster randomised trial.
BMJ:2020:371:m3840 Full text
Accuracy and prognostic value of physiologist-led stress echocardiography for coronary disease.
Heart, Lung and Transplantation:2020: November 12 Full text
Anaemia in cardiac surgery – a retrospective review of a centre's experience with a pre‐operative intravenous iron clinic.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 5 Full text
Association between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neuronal injury or amyloidosis and cognitive decline after major surgery.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: November 9 Full text
Cardiovascular risk among patients ≥65 years of age with Parkinson's Disease (from the National Inpatient Sample)
American Journal of Cardiology:2020:136:56-61 Full text
Efficacy and safety of lowering LDL cholesterol in older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Lancet:2020: November 10 Full text
Cardiovascular effects of medical marijuana: a systematic review.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: November 11 Full text
Association of cardiac rehabilitation and health-related quality of life following acute myocardial infarction.
Heart:2020:106(22):1726-31 Full text
Barriers and facilitators of palliative care and advance care planning in adults with congenital heart disease.
American Journal of Cardiology:2020:135:128-34 Full text
Effect of cognitive bias modification on early relapse among adults undergoing inpatient alcohol withdrawal treatment: a randomized clinical trial. SVHM
JAMA Psychiatry:2020: November 4 Full text
Drugs for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults after general anaesthesia: an abridged Cochrane network meta‐analysis.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 10 Full text
Anaesthetists’ attitudes towards attending the funerals of their patients: A cross-sectional study among Australian and New Zealand anaesthetists. SVHM
PLOS ONE:2020: November 5 Full text
Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases.
BMJ:2020:371:m3873 Full text
Fractures and their sequelae in non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease: the Stockholm CREAtinine Measurement project.
Nephrology, Dialysis Transplantation:2020:35(11):1908-15 Full text
Evaluation of a safe medication strategy intervention for people with dementia with an unplanned admission: results from the Safe Medication Strategy Dementia Study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: November 9 Full text
Development of a brief screen to detect cognitive impairment in older adults: the quicksort. AUS
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: November 9 Full text
A randomized trial comparing antibiotics with appendectomy for appendicitis.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020: November 12 Full text
Embedding consumer and community involvement within an established research centre: moving from general recommendations to an actionable framework. SVHM
Research Involvement and Engagement:2020:6:64 Full text
Blockchain technology in healthcare: challenges and opportunities.
International Journal of Healthcare Management:2020: November 8 Full text
Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology 11th Edition by 
Lange Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy: a Localization-Based Approach by The Library is currently trialling McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine, an online portal of books and a multimedia library, including procedural videos.
You can also create a personal account to save CME tests and links to favourite resources.
Some of the well known books on Access Medicine include:
