Library News: February 2024

NEWS

Library Lovers' Day 2024

Happening annually on February 14, Library Lovers' Day is dedicated to book lovers across the globe, and celebrates the important work of libraries and librarians everywhere.

Library staff will be at RDH first floor cafe doing a pop-up Library from 9.00-11.00am Wednesday, 14 February 2024. Come and talk to us!

• Get fast clinical information
• Learn how to access medicines and point-of-care apps
• Free prize draw
• Sample of latest books from our collection

Mobile apps for clinicians

NT Health clinicians can download specialist point-of-care tools and patient care apps straight to mobile devices accessible under NT Health Library Services' subscriptions and licensing agreements.

Click below to learn how you can connect to Therapeutic Guidelines, UpToDate, MIMs, AMH and many more.

A Territory-wide health library service

Library Services supports the research and information needs of all NT Health staff and affiliated health professionals throughout the Northern Territory.

The Library network is located in five of the NT hospitals consisting of three staffed branch libraries in the Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine hospitals; and two unstaffed libraries in the Tennant Creek and Gove hospitals. We also provide online support for remote, regional and Palmerston staff.

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 20th February 2024, 10-11am

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
Thursday 29th February 2024, 2pm

A retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of trends and risk factors for preterm birth in the Northern Territory, Australia

The objective of this study was to characterise temporal trends in PTB among First Nations and non-First Nations mothers in the Top End of the NT over a 10-year period and to identify perinatal factors associated with the risk of PTB. 

Brown K, Cotaru C, Binks M. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Jan 5;24(1):33

Indigenous art-themed personalised theatre caps improve patient perioperative experience and perceived staff communication in the operating theatre: a quality improvement project at Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia

A total of 223 staff and patients completed surveys. Most patients reported the theatre caps to be helpful (90%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 81-99) and felt more comfortable because staff were wearing them (91%, 95% CI 82-100).

Peake B, Smirk A, Debelak G. BMC Res Notes. 2024 Jan 21;17(1):31

Bronchiectasis among Indigenous adults in the Top End of the Northern Territory, 2011-2020: a retrospective cohort study

This study assesses the prevalence of bronchiectasis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) adults in the Top End of the Northern Territory, and mortality among Indigenous adults with bronchiectasis.

Gibbs C, Howarth T, Ticoalu, A et al. Med J Aust. 2024 Jan 15

SPOTLIGHT

LATEST HEALTH PUBLICATIONS

Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: guidance on large multi-modal models

This guidance addresses one type of generative AI, large multi-modal models (LMMs), which can accept one or more type of data input and generate diverse outputs that are not limited to the type of data fed into the algorithm. It has been predicted that LMMs will have wide use and application in health care, scientific research, public health and drug development.

World Health Organisation, 18 January 2024

New Australian guidelines for diabetes related foot disease: MJA podcasts 2023 episode 32,

Discusses the new Australian guidelines for diabetes related foot disease.

Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) Vol 219, Issue 9, 24 January 2024

Australian burden of disease study 2023

The Australian Burden of Disease Study 2023 includes national estimates for 220 diseases and injuries in 2023 based on projections using historical trends in data.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 14 December 2023

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.