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Can an online mental health training program improve physician supervisors’ behaviour towards trainees? AUS
Internal Medicine: 2021: January 19 Full text
Choice architecture in physician–patient communication: a mixed-methods assessments of physicians’ competency.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2021: January 5 Full text
Stressors for emergency department nurses: insights from a cross‐sectional survey. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: January 14 Full text
An observational study of the incidence and factors associated with patient readmission from home based care under the hospital in the home program. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: January 20 Full text
Testing the reliability of the Health Literacy Questionnaire with carers of older adults receiving hospital care. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: January 19 Full text
Ward round checklist improves patient perception of care.
ANZ Journal of Surgery: 2021: January 18 Full text
Intelligent checklists improve checklist compliance in the intensive care unit: a prospective before-and-after mixed-method study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021:126(2):404-14 Full text
Prevalence of pressure injuries among critically ill patients and factors associated with their occurrence in the intensive care unit: the PRESSURE study.
Australian Critical Care:2021: January 20 Full text
Effectiveness of bundle interventions on ICU Delirium: a meta-analysis.
Critical Care Medicine:2021:49(2):335-46 Full text
The need for culturally competent care within gastroenterology services: evidence from research with adults of south Asian origin living with inflammatory bowel disease.
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis:2021:15(1):14-23 Full text
Human difficulties influence adherence of healthcare workers to infection control practices: psychology matters in the ICU: Psychology and adherence in the ICU.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: January 16 Full text
Validation of Australian and Victorian guidelines for colonoscopy triage. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: January 18 Full text
Postdischarge virtual visits for low-risk surgeries: a randomized noninferiority clinical trial.
JAMA Surgery:2021 January 13 Full text
Surgical plating vs closed reduction for fractures in the distal radius in older patients: a randomized clinical trial. SVHA
JAMA Surgery:2021: January 13 Full text
Effect of age on clinical outcomes in elderly patients (>80 years) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from a multi-centre Australian PCI registry. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2021: January 19 Full text
Association between exposure to general versus regional anesthesia and risk of dementia in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021:69(1):58-67 Full text
2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020: December 17 Full text
Effect of long-term beta-blocker treatment following myocardial infarction among stable, optimally treated patients without heart failure in the reperfusion era: a Danish, nationwide cohort study.
European Heart Journal:2021: January 11 Full text
Compression garment reduces orthostatic tachycardia and symptoms in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021:77(3):285-96 Full text
The role of diet in secondary stroke prevention. AUS
Lancet Neurology:2021:20(2):150-60 Full text
Stimulating sense memories for people living with dementia using the Namaste Care program: What works, how and why? AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: January 19 Full text
Effectiveness of a locality‐based integrated diabetes care service on clinical outcomes. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: January 20 Full text
Sodium-glucose cotransporter protein-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
BMJ:2021:372:m4573 Full text
Efficacy and safety of low and very low carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes remission: systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished randomized trial data.
BMJ:2021:372:m4743 Full text
Metabolic surgery versus conventional medical therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes: 10-year follow-up of an open-label, single-centre, randomised controlled trial.
Lancet:2021:397(10271):293-304 Full text
Dialysis and driving: An anonymous survey of patients receiving dialysis for end stage kidney disease. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: January 19 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:
