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Library News: March 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 2025

 

Research support week 2025 
The Library Services team is holding a Research Support Week to highlight the valuable support available to NT Health staff undertaking or thinking about research. The week is aimed at promoting engagement in research activities, fostering networking and collaboration as well as supporting integrating research into health practice. 

For more information and to register, visit our webpage.

NEWS

 

Snapshot of NT Health's research output in 2024

In 2024, NT Health staff contributed to several significant research publications. These publications reflect NT Health's commitment to addressing public health challenges, integrating multidisciplinary care, and analyzing long-term health trends to inform policy and practice. The infographic below provides a snapshot of NT Health's research output in 2024 by subject, work unit and journal (based on articles indexed in NT Health Research and Publications Online).

Read all research articles by our top 5 work units: 

Explore NT Health published literature from out top 5 journals: 

 

 

New version of Zotero approved for use on NTG assets

Zotero is an open source (freely available) software package that helps you to collect, store, organise and use your references. References can be entered into Zotero manually, or they can be imported into Zotero from journal databases and web pages.

The new version, Zotero 7, comes with great new features to make your research life easier! Learn how you can have Zotero installed on your NTG asset.

 

 

Research poster competition

Showcase your research poster as part of the Library Services' Research Support Week 2025, connect with peers, win exciting prizes and show us your brilliance!

The research poster competition is open to any NT Health staff member who has presented a poster at a conference in the past 12 months. Posters will be showcased online via the Library Services website homepage and the NT Health Research and Publications Online. repository.

 

 

Services to support staff undertaking research

Our expert librarians can assist you with your research!.Services available to you include:

  • Literature searching
  • Research consultation
  • Systematic review support
  • Critical appraisal of the literature
  • Constructing search strategies

UPCOMING TRAINING

 

Upcoming training: Advanced literature searching

This session will benefit staff who need to undertake a structured systematic search for background articles as part of a departmental research project or for writing a literature review for postgraduate study.

Delivered via MS Teams
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 10-11am

 

 

Upcoming training: Referencing tools

This short 30 minute workshop will demonstrate the basics of using a citation management tool (Endnote / Zotero) to manage the references for your research, work project or study.


Delivered via MS Teams
Friday 28 March 2025, 10-10.30am

NT HEALTH RESEARCH

 

Patient experience survey of people living with Hailey-Hailey disease

The article discusses a patient experience survey of individuals living with Hailey-Hailey disease (HHD), highlighting challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and awareness within the medical community, the need for further research and improved dissemination of information to general practitioners.

Adams L, Hoang, L. Australian Journal of General Practice. 2024. Vol. 53, No. 4:170–171 Request article

 

 

Clinical characteristics and economic impact of acute hospitalisations due to bronchiectasis exacerbations among adult Indigenous Australians in the Top End Northern Territory

This cross-sectional study assessed the clinical and economic costs (Inpatient Activity Database) associated with hospitalisations due to bronchiectasis exacerbations among adult Indigenous patients in the Top End, Northern Territory.

Berhane T et al. Intern Med J. 2025 Feb 21

 

 

An outbreak of Salmonella Muenchen gastroenteritis after consuming wild hunted kangaroo, Northern Territory, Australia, 2024

An outbreak investigation was conducted via telephone and face-to-face using a standardised questionnaire that recorded symptoms and exposures to foods and activities prior to onset of symptoms. This outbreak highlights the risks of contamination of game meat. Those preparing hunted meat should wash hands and knives regularly while butchering an animal to avoid contamination; should store butchered meat below 5 °C to avoid bacterial growth and cook foods thoroughly to kill microbes. The estimated cost to society of this outbreak was 9,810 Australian dollars.

Draper A et al. Commun Dis Intell (2018). 2025 Feb 19:49

NEW BOOKS

Check out the range of new print and electronic books this month 
Read new eBooks from any device using your NTG LAN login. New books can be sent to you via internal mail or you can pick them up from your nearest library.


      
      
       

SPOTLIGHT

 

NT Health Research and Publications Online
It's now easier than ever to discover NT Health research, researchers, projects and publications. As the main platform for sharing NT Health research, the NT Health Research and Publications Online repository is also an 'open source' publishing site for NT health's researchers. It contains:

  • Author/researcher profiles that collate all the publications and projects of departmental staff, who are involved in NT Health research or publish journal articles. 
  • Metrics that show overall engagement and highlight the reach and impact of published articles. Example: an article on Japanese Encephalitis in Australia, by NT Health researchers Rob Baird, Bart Currie and Vicki Krause was picked up by 4 news outlets and placed in the top five percent of research outputs scored by data science company, Altmetric.
  • Record statistics show at-a-glance information on the number of times an NT Health publication has been viewed and downloaded. Example: the quarterly CDC NT Disease Control Bulletin, providing the latest data on communicable diseases and notifiable conditions, has been downloaded 72,996 times since it was added to the repository. 
  • Improved search functions help to find publications, projects, author profiles and research based on work unit, division, location and region. Example: people can determine which NT Health projects or research are being done in the Top End region, at Alice Springs Hospital, or by the Emergency Department work unit.

LATEST HEALTH PUBLICATIONS

2025 public hospital report card

This report presents performance results for public hospital capacity, and emergency department and planned surgery waiting times; as well as hospital expenditure. It notes increasing wait times for essential surgeries and longer waits for patients in emergency departments; highlighting the need for increased investment by both state and federal governments.

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO), 28 February 2025

 

 

National suicide prevention strategy 2025–2035

Drawing on the latest research, evidence and insights from people with lived and living experience of suicide, the strategy outlines a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention.

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO), 20 February 2025

 

 

Rural health in Australia snapshot 2025

The snapshot outlines demographics, health risk factors, health outcomes and the health system. It presents the upsides and downsides of living in rural areas as measured against social determinants of health and finds that the distribution of health professionals in Australia is not equitable. 

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO), 20 February 2025

WHAT YOU'RE SAYING

 


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

NT Health Library Services acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout the Northern Territory and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

       

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