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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Enablers and barriers to conducting research in general medicine advanced training. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: July 8 Full text
Impact of clinician education on emergency department mechanical restraint: an interrupted time-series study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: July 29 Full text
Utilization of the No One Dies Alone Program to support dying patients.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2025: July 24 Full text
Formative evaluation of an employee-driven approach to improve care in the dying phase in hospitals. OA
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: July 18 Full text
Germicidal UV light and incidence of acute respiratory infection in long-term care for older adults: a randomized clinical trial. AUS
JAMA Internal Medicine:2025: July 28 Full text
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine boosters for reducing COVID-19 mortality among people aged 65 years or older, Australia, August 2023 – February 2024: a retrospective observational cohort study.
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: July 24 Full text
Impact of preoperative povidone nasal swab on the incidence of surgical site infection: an observational study.
Journal of Patient Safety:21(5):348-55 Full text
Structured vs self-guided multidomain lifestyle interventions for global cognitive function: The US POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2025: July 28 Full text
Safety and effectiveness of the Walk ‘n Watch structured, progressive exercise protocol delivered by physical therapists for inpatient stroke rehabilitation in Canada: a phase 3, multisite, pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Lancet Neurology:2025:24(8):643-55 Full text
Stroke survivors’ perspectives on decisions about their transition to independent walking in hospital: a qualitative study. AUS OA
Disability and Rehabilitation:2025: July 28 Full text
Neurodegeneration and stroke after semaglutide and tirzepatide in patients with diabetes and obesity. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: July 15 Full text
Evolution of coronary stents: innovations, antithrombotic strategies and future directions.
Heart:2025:111(16):753-62 Full text
Emerging use of pulmonary artery and cardiac pressure sensing technology in the management of worsening heart failure events. OA
Heart Failure Reviews:2025:30:869-81 Full text
Metastatic melanoma outcomes and the evolving role of surgery in the immunotherapy era.
JAMA Surgery:2025: July 23 Full text
Spinal cord stimulation patterns of care, re-interventions, and costs for private health insurers, Australia, 2011–22: a retrospective observational study. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: July 14 Full text
High Bleeding Risk Patients in Interventional Cardiology
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