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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Care of Older People in Surgery for general surgery: a single centre experience. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: April 1 Full text
Gamifying health literacy: how can digital technology optimize patient outcomes in surgery? STV
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: April Full text
Medicine shortages: there are solutions! Actions to take to reduce medicine shortages. AUS
Australian Health Review:2021: April 6 Full text
Chair-based exercise interventions for nursing home residents: a systematic review.
Journal of the American Medical Director's Association:2021:22(4):733-40 Full text
Muscle density, but not size, correlates well with muscle strength and physical performance.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2021:22(4):751-59 Full text
Effect of low-intensity vs high-intensity home-based walking exercise on walk distance in patients with peripheral artery disease: The LITE Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2021: April 6 Full text
How active are stroke patients in physiotherapy sessions and is this associated with stroke severity?
Disability and Rehabilitation:2021: April 1 Full text
Frailty implications for exercise participation and outcomes in patients with heart failure. AUS
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: April Full text
Telomere length is independently associated with all-cause mortality in chronic heart failure.
Heart:2021: March 31 Full text
Lower or higher oxygenation targets for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: April 8 Full text
Comparison of two delayed strategies for renal replacement therapy initiation for severe acute kidney injury (AKIKI 2): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled trial.
Lancet:2021:397(10281):1293-1300 Full text
Utility of 3D printed abdominal aortic aneurysm phantoms: a systematic review. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2021: April 6 Full text
Avatar-based patient monitoring in critical anaesthesia events: a randomised high-fidelity simulation study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: April 8 Full text
Effects of general anaesthesia during pregnancy on neurocognitive development of the fetus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: April 6 Full text
Elevated risk of cognitive impairment among older sexual minorities: do health conditions, health behaviors, and social connections matter?
Gerontologist:2021:61(3):352-62 Full text
Effect of continued weekly subcutaneous semaglutide vs placebo on weight loss maintenance in adults with overweight or obesity: The STEP 4 Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2021: March 23 Full text
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews.
BMJ:2021:372:n71 Full text
Trends in views of articles published in 3 leading medical journals during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
JAMA Network Open:2021: April 1 Full text
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management by We have new journals for you in 2021 form Oxford University Press.
Note that for some, archive content has not been added as yet, as they were previously published by another publisher.
The Library provides McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine, an online portal of books and a multimedia library, including procedural videos.
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Some of the well known books on Access Medicine include:
