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Take-home kits to detect respiratory viruses among healthcare personnel: lessons learned from a cluster randomized clinical trial .American Journal of Infection Control:2021: February 10 Full text
Health service utilisation and health outcomes of residential aged care residents referred to a hospital avoidance program: a multi‐site retrospective quasi‐experimental study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: February 5 Full text
Does inpatient palliative care facilitate home-based palliative care postdischarge? A retrospective cohort study.
Palliative Medicine Reports:2021: February 3 Full text
The extent of polypharmacy and use of ‘fall risk increasing drugs’ in the oldest old admitted to a regional New South Wales hospital. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: February 10 Full text
The 4-Hour Cairns Sepsis Model: A novel approach to predicting sepsis mortality at intensive care unit admission. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: February 6 Full text
Current airway management practices after a failed intubation attempt in Australian and New Zealand emergency departments. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: February 5 Full text
Safety of rapid sequence intubation in an emergency training network. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: February 9 Full text
Preoperative acute pain is associated with postoperative delirium.
Pain Medicine:2021:22(1):15-21 Full text
The effectiveness of interventions to improve pain assessment and management in people living with dementia: a systematic review and meta‐analyses.
Journal of Advanced Nursing:2021:77(3):1127-1140 Full text
Methodologies for systematic reviews with meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials in pain, anaesthesia, and perioperative medicine.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: February 6 Full text
Effects of standard versus energy‐dense formulae on gastric retention, caloric delivery, and glycaemia in critically ill patients. AUS
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition:2021: February 5 Full text
Are traditional screening tools adequate for monitoring the nutrition risk of in‐hospital patients? An analysis of the nutritionDay database.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition:2021: February 7 Full text
Adolescent-onset and adult-onset vitamin-responsive neurogenetic diseases: a review.
JAMA Neurology:2021: January 11 Full text
Risk of progression to diabetes among older adults with prediabetes.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2021: February 8 Full text
Early corticosteroid cessation vs long-term corticosteroid therapy in kidney transplant recipients: long-term outcomes of a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA Surgery:2021: February 3 Full text
Lipid profile and subsequent cardiovascular disease among young adults aged < 50 years.
American Journal of Cardiology:2021:142:59-65 Full text
Traditional markers of cardiac toxicity fail to detect marked reductions in cardiorespiratory fitness among cancer patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment. STV
European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging:2021: February 5 Full text
Pooled analysis of PFO occluder device trials in patients with PFO and migraine.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021:77(6):667-76 Full text
Natriuretic equation to predict loop diuretic response in patients with heart failure.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021:77(6):695-708 Full text
Risks prediction of COVID-19 incidence and mortality in a large multi-national haemodialysis cohort: Implications for management of the pandemic in outpatient haemodialysis settings.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2021: February 5 Full text
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.
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:
