Library News: August 2024

NEWS

Winner of Library Experience Survey prize pack

Congratulations to Salona Roopan, RDH Forensic Pathologist, winner of the Library Experience Survey Prize Pack! 

Thanks to everyone who took the time to undertake our survey.  Survey results to come soon.

Librarian support in Alice Springs

A'Mhara McKey, a librarian from the Darwin Health Library will be visiting the Alice Springs Health Library from 12th to 15th August 2024, and will be available to answer your questions. 

Drop-in to the library or email to arrange a time for me to come to you or your team.

Literature Search Service

Our specialist Librarians conduct comprehensive literature searches to support patient care, research projects, service development and more. We will conduct a search on your behalf and send the best articles directly to your inbox.

Topics searched in June/July include: Early mobilisation postoperative, BPG, parenteral nutrition, overcrowding emergency department, melioidosis-intervention and clinical outcomes.

UPCOMING TRAINING

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
Tuesday 20th August 2024, from 12:00-12:30pm

Upcoming training: Library overview

Whether you’re a new staff member or just want to brush up on the basics, this workshop is designed to help you get the most out of the library’s services and resources.

Delivered via MS Teams

Wednesday 28th August 2024, 2pm

Tracking trends in the Top End: clindamycin and erythromycin resistance in Group A Streptococcus in the Northern Territory, 2012-2023

This retrospective study reviewed the macrolide resistance rates of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) isolates in the Northern Territory from 2012 to 2023. Clindamycin and erythromycin resistance rates peaked in 2021, at 6.0% and 12.2% respectively, and then returned to near baseline at 1-2% in 2023.

Nixon J et al. Commun Dis Intell (2018) . 2024 Jul 17:48

Decomposing the gaps in healthy and unhealthy life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a burden of disease and injury study

This paper aims to quantify and compare the causes and their relative contributions to the life expectancy (LE) gaps between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia.

Zhao Y et al. Popul Healt Metr 2024 Jul 11;22(1):15

Real-world experience of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with solid tumours in the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia from 2016 to 2021: a retrospective observational cohort study

This retrospective, observational, cohort study collected data from electronic records of patients living in the Top End with solid organ cancer treated with immunotherapy between January 2016 and December 2021. The primary outcome was cumulative incidence of any-grade and severe irAE. Secondary outcomes were overall survival, treatment duration and reason for treatment discontinuation.Two hundred and twenty-six patients received immunotherapy. Forty-eight (21%) lived in a remote or very remote area, and 36 (16%) were Indigenous.

Tun Min S et al. Intern Med J. 2024 Jul 5

SPOTLIGHT

LATEST HEALTH PUBLICATIONS

Tobacco and asthma: WHO tobacco knowledge summaries

This document is the ninth in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries and is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and asthma.

World Health Organisation (WHO), 2024

The real face of men's health: 2024 Australian report

The report highlights examples from Australia and abroad of programs and services that effectively engage men in healthcare, identifying critical elements that make them so effective.

Movember Foundation, 11 July 2024

Australia's health 2024: in brief

This publication presents a summary of the state of health in Australia in 2024, with key findings on the health system, the health of Australians, and factors that can influence public health.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 02 July 2024

NEW BOOKS

Check out the range of new 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.