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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Workforce well-being is workforce readiness: it is time to advance from describing the problem to solving it.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2025: May 20 Full text
Effectiveness of organisational strategies for pressure injury prevention and treatment in acute hospital settings: a systematic review. STV OA
Journal of Advanced Nursing:2025: June 5 Full text
‘This is perfect, thank you’: Research poetry on gratitude for voluntary assisted dying in Victoria, Australia. AUS OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: June 9 Full text
Australian clinical practice guideline for physical rehabilitation and mobilisation in adult intensive care units. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2025:38(4):101235 Full text
Vision & the ageing surgeon: a review. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: June 10 Full text
The changing spectrum of cardiovascular diseases.
Lancet:2025: June 9 Full text
Semaglutide: a key medication for managing cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome. STV OA
Future Cardiology:2025: June 3 Full text
Navigating the complexities of mild and moderate covid-19 treatment.
BMJ:2025: 389:r1016 Full text
Long-term coronary microvascular and cardiac dysfunction after Severe COVID-19 hospitalization. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: June 9 Full text
Alcohol use and COVID-19 outcomes.
Chest:2025: June 10 Full text
Development of the Australian Rheumatology Association Clinical Care Standard for the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis in adults. AUS OA
Journal of Rheumatology:2025: June 1 Full text
British Society of Gastroenterology practice guidance on the management of acute and chronic gastrointestinal symptoms and complications as a result of treatment for cancer. OA
Gut:2025:74:1040-67 Full text
Effectiveness and safety of bright light therapy in oncological patients: a systematic review.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2025:70(1):e1-24 Full text
Effects of inspiratory muscle training on pulmonary function, diaphragmatic thickness, balance and exercise capacity in people after stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2025:47(12):2981-96 Full text
Survival in Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Australia: a 50 year retrospective cohort study. AUS OA
Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific:2025:58:101568 Full text
Antithrombotic therapy and mortality risk in older adults with hip fractures. OA
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2025: June 7 Full text
Malnutrition in older adults.
New England Journal of Medicine:2025: June 11 Full text
Effectiveness of soft tissue manual therapy in chronic plantar fasciitis patients: a systematic review.
Physical Therapy Reviews:2025: June 7 Full text
Surgery versus corticosteroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome (DISTRICTS): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
Lancet:2025:405:10495:2153-63 Full text