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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Understanding integrated care through patient journeys.
Clinical Teacher:2023: January 30 Full text
Final year medical students as assistants in medicine in the emergency department: A pilot study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: January 19 Full text
National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians’ extended duration work shifts: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2023:32(2):81-89 Full text
A racial bias test with tertiary cancer centre employees: why anti-racist measures are required for First Nations Australians cancer care equity. AUS
Australian Health Review:2023:47(1):5-12 Full text
Communication about sexual orientation and gender between clinicians, LGBT+ people facing serious illness and their significant others: a qualitative interview study of experiences, preferences and recommendations.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2023:32(2):109-20 Full text
The Commonwealth Criminal Code restricts the use of carriage services to access voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a perspective. AUS
Australian Health Review:2023:47(1):64-66 Full text
Patient and carer experiences of lung cancer referral pathway in a regional health service, a qualitative study. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: January 29 Full text
Dr Google – assessing the reliability and readability of information on general surgical procedures found via search engines. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: January 30 Full text
Contamination of blood cultures from arterial catheters and peripheral venipuncture in critically ill patients: a prospective multicenter diagnostic study.
Chest:2023: January 30 Full text
What do spontaneous coronary artery dissection survivors want to support their recovery? A qualitative study.
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing:2023: January 19 Full text
Trends in myocardial infarction and coronary revascularisation procedures in Australia, 1993–2017. AUS
Heart:2023:109(4):283-88 Full text
Methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy: an addiction medicine perspective. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: January 24 Full text
In-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 associated myocarditis (from a Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database Study).
American Journal of Cardiology:2023:192:39-44 Full text
The evolving impact of myocardial injury in Patients with COVID-19 amid the Omicron wave of the pandemic.
American Journal of Cardiology:2023:190:54-60 Full text
Association between healthy lifestyle and memory decline in older adults: 10 year, population based, prospective cohort study.
BMJ:2023:380:e072691 Full text
Shoulder pain and dysfunction after vaccination: a systematic review.
JBJS Reviews:2023:11(1) Full text
Conditional power: how likely is trial success?
JAMA:2023: January 23 Full text
A selection of new systematic reviews from the January 2023 issue of the Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews
Medication review in hospitalised patients to reduce morbidity and mortality
Cognitive stimulation to improve cognitive functioning in people with dementia
Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
Hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19
Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID‐19
Antithrombotic treatment after stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage
Balneotherapy for chronic venous insufficiency
Corticosteroids for the management of cancer‐related fatigue in adults with advanced cancer
Baclofen for alcohol use disorder
Physical exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis
Protein restriction for diabetic kidney disease
Calcium and vitamin D for increasing bone mineral density in premenopausal women
We have access to new journal titles in 2024 via our various package collections
Cambridge University Press
64 new journal titles are included in this package. Some selected tiltes include:
Oxford University Press
Taylor and Francis Online
Science Direct
Wiley Online Library