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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Victorian public healthcare Chief Executive Officers’ views on renewable energy supply. AUS
Australian Health Review:2021: January 29 Full text
Race and genetic ancestry in medicine — a time for reckoning with racism.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: February 4 Full text
Addressing surgical inequity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's universal health care system: a call to action. STV
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2021: January 28 Full text
Investigating the prevalence of intimate partner violence victimisation in women presenting to the emergency department in suicidal crisis. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: January 31 Full text
Why do healthcare professionals fail to escalate as per the early warning system (EWS) protocol? A qualitative evidence synthesis of the barriers and facilitators of escalation.
BMC Emergency Medicine:2021: January 28 Full text
Prescription medication use by emergency department doctors to improve work and academic performance, and to manage stress and anxiety. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: February 2 Full text
Implementation of specialist palliative care and outcomes for hospitalized patients with dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: February 1 Full text
Time out before talking: communication as a medical procedure.
Annals of Internal Medicine:2021:174(1):96-97 Full text
Interventions at hospital discharge to guide caregivers in medication management for people living with dementia: a systematic review. AUS
Journal of General Internal Medicine:2021: February 3 Full text
Development and evaluation of a novel pre‐operative surgery school and behavioural change intervention for patients undergoing elective major surgery: Fit‐4‐Surgery School.
Anaesthesia:2021: February 3 Full text
The design and evaluation of a pre-procedure checklist specific to the cardiac catheterisation laboratory. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: January 29 Full text
Association between heart failure and perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
European Heart Journal - Quality of care and Clinical Outcomes:2021:7(1):68-75 Full text
Opioid-free anaesthesia for anterior total hip replacement under general anaesthesia: the Observational Prospective Study of Opiate-free Anesthesia for Anterior Total Hip Replacement trial.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: February 3 Full text
Quality of life three and twelve months after acute pulmonary embolism: analysis from a prospective multicenter cohort study.
Chest:2021: February 3 Full text
Potentially inappropriate medicines for older adults with intellectual disability: clinical implications from a medication audit.
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: February 1 Full text
Use of proton pump inhibitors to treat persistent throat symptoms: multicentre, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial.
BMJ:2021:372:m4903 Full text
Breast cancer risk genes — association analysis in more than 113,000 women.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: February 4 Full text
Submaximal eccentric cycling in people with COPD: acute whole-body cardiopulmonary and muscle metabolic responses.
Chest:2021:159(2):564-74 Full text
Increased patient safety-related incidents following the transition into daylight savings time.
Journal of General Internal Medicine:2021:36(1):51-54 Full text
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Note that for some, archive content has not been added as yet, as they were previously published by another publisher.
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