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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Adherence to ambulance performance indicators and patient outcomes after stroke: An Australian data linkage study. AUS OA
Australasian Emergency Care:2025: July 4 Full text
Enhancing person-centred care in the final years of life: insights from emergency department visits and hospitalisations in Victorian residential aged care (2015/16 to 2022/23). AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: July 7 Full text
Single high-sensitivity troponin levels to assess patients with potential acute coronary syndromes: 1-year outcomes.
Heart:2025: June 27 Full text
Co-design of a personalised physical activity intervention for stroke survivors. AUS OA
Physiotherapy:2025: June 26 Full text
Optimising same-day discharge: the impact of opioid and anti-emetic prescribing in day surgery.
Anaesthesia:2025: July 7 Full text
For CPR or not-for-CPR? Demographic factors predict resuscitation order documentation and CPR status in general surgery patients. AUS OA
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: June 26 Full text
A survey of nitrous oxide usage and knowledge of its environmental effects across healthcare worker groups. AUS
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care:2025: June 19 Full text
Breast implant illness after reconstruction with silicone breast implants. OA
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2025: July 3 Full text
Management of peripheral artery disease.
JAMA:2025: July 2 Full text
Acute amnesia resulting in complete relief of pain, depression, and anxiety.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2025: July 7 Full text
Circadian rhythm in end-of-life delirium: a secondary analysis of two randomized controlled trials.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2025:70(2):131-39 Full text
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
JAMA Ophthalmology:2025: June 5 Full text
A case series of incidents reported to webAIRS relating to glucagon-like peptide 1 agonist use.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care:2025:53(4):220-230 Full text
Opioid use and the risk of cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review. OA
Cancer and Metastasis Reviews:2025: June 11 Full text
BMJ Best Practice is a clinical descion support tool available via the Clinicians Health Channel
You will also find a link to BMJ Best Practice on the SVHM Opendoor in the Clinical Reference Resources panel.
BMJ Best Practice provides standardised evidence-based information for hundreds of conditions and symptoms, across diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
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