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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Frequency of and associations with alterations of medical emergency team calling criteria in a teaching hospital emergency department. STV
Australian Critical Care:2023: September 15 Full text
Responsiveness of critically ill adults with multimorbidity to rehabilitation interventions: a patient-level meta-analysis using individual pooled data from four randomized trials. AUS
Critical Care Medicine:2023:51(10):1375-85 Full text
Visual identifiers for people with dementia in hospitals: a qualitative study to unravel mechanisms of action for improving quality of care.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2023:32(10):600-607 Full text
Poorer outcomes in patients with early postoperative delirium: 120-day follow-up of the Delirium Reduction by Analgesia Management in Hip Fracture (DRAM-HF) study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2023: September 14 Full text
Experiences of indigenous patients receiving dialysis: systematic review of qualitative studies. AUS
American Journal of Kidney Diseases:2023: September 18 Full text
Decision aids to assist patients and professionals in choosing the right treatment for kidney failure.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2023: September 13 Full text
Should antihypertensive medications be routinely administered in the nighttime instead of daytime?
American Journal of Medicine:2023:136(10):975-78 Full text
Planning for change: co-designing implementation strategies to improve the use of sensory approaches in an acute psychiatric unit. AUS
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2023: August 29 Full text
Violence risk assessment instruments in forensic psychiatric populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Lancet Psychiatry:2023:10(10):780-89 Full text
Self-binding directives in psychiatric practice: a systematic review of reasons.
Lancet Psychiatry:2023: September 12 Full text
Prevention of perioperative stroke in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
Lancet Neurology:2023:22(10):946-58 Full text
High-dose steroids for nonresolving acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill COVID-19 patients treated with dexamethasone: a multicenter cohort study.
Critical Care Medicine:2023:51(10):1306-17 Full text
Malnutrition in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2023: September 14 Full text
Non-erosive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in three Nordic countries: population based cohort study.
BMJ:2023:382:e076017 Full text
Development of a novel and more holistic approach for assessing impact in health and medical research: the Research Impact Assessment Framework. AUS
Australian Health Review:2023: September 11 Full text
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare have released a report on Dementia in Australia:
This online report provides a comprehensive picture of dementia in Australia, including the latest statistics on dementia prevalence, burden of disease, deaths, expenditure, as well as the use of health and aged care services among people with dementia and information on carers of people with dementia.
It is estimated that 401,300 Australians were living with dementia in 2022, and the number of Australians with dementia is projected to more than double by the year 2058