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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Do medical masks have to be disposable?
Lancet:2025: June 27 Full text
Proposing core competencies for physicians in using artificial intelligence tools in clinical practice. AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: June 27 Full text
A core set of outcome measures to assess physical function for adults participating in physical therapist treatment in the hospital: a clinical practice guideline.
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Journal:2025:105(6): pzaf076 Full text
Palliative care in the ICU: from oxymoron to standard of care.
Intensive Care Medicine:2025: June 25 Full text
Rinaldo Bellomo: relentless architect of modern intensive care.
Intensive Care Medicine:2025: June 3 Full text
Staff and referrer experiences and challenges with a new emergency department avoidance service for older people: a qualitative study. AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: July 1 Full text
Prescription opioid supply-restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 26 Full text
Clinical outcomes of patients seen by psychiatrists in a multidisciplinary clinic for disorders of gut-brain interaction. STV OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: June 27 Full text
Sarcopenia is poorly documented in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients: Restoring Health of Acutely Unwell Adults (RESORT). STV OA
Gerontology:2025:71(3):203-13 Full text
Effectiveness of swallowing rehabilitation exercises in older adults with swallowing disorders: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2025: June 28 Full text
Early invasive or conservative strategies for older patients with acute coronary syndromes: a meta-analysis.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2025: June 23 Full text
Near-universal prevalence of central adiposity in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: the PARAGON-HF trial. OA
European Heart Journal:2025:46(25):2372-90 Full text
Collaboration on the optimal timing of anticoagulation after ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and prospective individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (CATALYST). OA
Lancet:2025: June 23 Full text
Scientific advances in the assessment, modification, and generation of transplantable organs for patients with end-stage organ diseases.
Lancet:2025: July 1 Full text
Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.
BMJ:2025: June 18 Full text
Structured exercise after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer.
New England Journal of Medicine:2025: June 1 Full text
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Essential Revision Notes for the European Exam in Core Cardiology
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Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review
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