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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“We're stuck in recruitment, because we can't retain”: an interview study exploring physiotherapy recruitment and retention in rural Australia. AUS
Physiotherapy:2025: April 28 Full text
Long-term postoperative outcomes by surgeon gender and patient-surgeon gender concordance in the US.
JAMA Surgery:2025: April 23 Full text
Efficacy of enhanced recovery programmes for cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2025: April 25 Full text
Building dignity at the bedside: A reflective clinical model for clinical encounters. OA
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: April 25 Full text
Culturally appropriate and respectful end-of-life care for patients and their families in the intensive care unit: A mixed-method study. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2025: April 23 Full text
Evaluating the effectiveness of psilocybin in alleviating distress among cancer patients: A systematic review. OA
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: April 22 Full text
Intervention for hospitalized people with chronic pain and elevated risk for opioid-related harm: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
Journal of Hospital Medicine:2025: April 24 Full text
Opportunities to digitally enable falls prevention in older adults.
Gerontologist:2025:65(4):gnaf016 Full text
Use of artificial intelligence to generate emergency department discharge summaries.
Australian Health Review:2025: April 28 Full text
How AI can help in error detection and prevention in the ICU? OA
Intensive care Medicine:2025:51:590-92 Full text
Rare but relevant: Hydrocarbons and sudden sniffing syndrome. AUS OA
Addiction:2025: April 25 Full text
Cytisinicline for smoking cessation: The ORCA Phase 3 Replication Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2025: April 21 Full text
Father’s occupation and colorectal cancer in his adult offspring.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2025: April 25 Full text
Acute blood pressure lowering and risk of ischemic lesions on MRI after intracerebral hemorrhage.
JAMA Neurology:2025: April 21 Full text
Operative vs nonoperative treatment of acute cholecystitis in older adults with multimorbidity.JAMA Surgery:2025: April 16 Full text
Cognitive behavior therapy for mental disorders in adults: a unified series of meta-analyses.
JAMA Psychiatry:2025: April 16 Full text
Association between metabolic syndrome and young-onset dementia: a nationwide population-based study.
Neurology:2025: April 23 Full text
Associations of accelerated biological aging with dementia and the mediation role of brain structure: findings from a longitudinal study.
Neurology:2025: April 30 Full text
Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs by 
Oxford Case Histories in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery by A selection of systematic reviews from The Cochrane Library March - April 2025
Music‐based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia
Pelvic floor muscle training with feedback or biofeedback for urinary incontinence in women
Postoperative nutritional support after pancreaticoduodenectomy in adults
Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice
Ultrasound‐guided versus anatomic landmark‐guided percutaneous femoral artery access
Effect of amphetamines on blood pressure
Withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in older people
Endovascular thrombectomy with versus without intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke
Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Preoperative medical therapy before surgery for uterine fibroids
