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Development, implementation and evaluation of a process to recognise and reduce aggression and violence in an Australian emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: December 17 Full text
Strategies for implementing consumer involvement in nursing handover on acute mental health in-patient units. AUS
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2020: December 16 Full text
Characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples attending Australian emergency departments. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: December 22 Full text
Accessible and affordable healthcare? Views of Australians with and without chronic conditions. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: December 22 Full text
‘I’d rather die in the middle of a street’: perceptions and expectations of aged care among Forgotten Australians. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: December 17 Full text
What are the perceptions of staff who work in, and professionals who advise on the design of, Australian aged care facilities on the value and use of handrails in corridors? AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: December 20 Full text
Advanced telehealth technology improves home-based exercise therapy for people with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review. AUS
Journal of Physiotherapy:2020: December 24 Full text
Pilonidal sinus: is histological examination necessary?
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: December 28 Full text
The costs of epilepsy in Australia: a productivity-based analysis. AUS
Neurology:2020:95(24):e3221-31 Full text
Dementia and epilepsy: not a one-way street.
Neurology:2020:95(24):1074-75 Full text
Multidisciplinary, exercise-based oncology rehabilitation programs improve patient outcomes but their effects on healthcare service-level outcomes remain uncertain: a systematic review. AUS
Journal of Physiotherapy:2020: December 24 Full text
Effect of motor skill training in functional activities vs strength and flexibility exercise on function in people with chronic low back pain: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA Neurology:2020:December 28 Full text
Art therapy in a palliative care unit: symptom relief and perceived helpfulness in patients and their relatives.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2021:61(1):103-11 Full text
Progression of physical frailty and the risk of all‐cause mortality: is there a point of no return?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: December 24 Full text
Association of deprescribing with reduction in mortality and hospitalization: a pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2021:21(1):82-89 Full text
Ketamine: Is the current 200 mg product fit for purpose in the emergency department?
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: December 10 Full text
Effect of digoxin vs bisoprolol for heart rate control in atrial fibrillation on patient-reported quality of life: The RATE-AF randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2020:324(24):2497-2508 Full text
Impact of visual impairment following stroke (IVIS study): a prospective clinical profile of central and peripheral visual deficits, eye movement abnormalities and visual perceptual deficits.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2020: December 21 Full text
Mindfulness and cognitive training interventions in mild cognitive impairment: impact on cognition and mood.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: December 29 Full text
The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on chronic neuropathic pain in patients with multiple sclerosis: randomized controlled trial.
Pain Medicine:2020:21(12):3451-57 Full text
The association between post‐dural puncture headache and needle type during spinal anaesthesia: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis.
Anaesthesia:2020: December 17 Full text
Smartphone‐based applications to detect hearing loss: a review of current technology.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: December 19 Full text
ANZAED practice and training standards for dietitians providing eating disorder treatment. AUS
Journal of Eating Disorders:2020: December 15 Full text
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