Read QXMD
New alerting service - Read QXMD
QXMD aims to provide a single place to keep up with newly published medical & scientific research articles via your device or desktop.
It is a free app, easy to set-up, employs an alerts-based approach to notifications, and displays content in the style of a personalised digital journal.
Features:
- Uses an alerts-based approach to notify users of newly published content
- Track newly published content based on journal, topic or even keyword!
- Get full-text PDFs with one tap
- Browse through 1000s of outstanding topic reviews
- Search millions of articles from PubMed and our database of outstanding topic reviews
- Read subscribed journals or browse article collections.
- Access full-text through Epworth Knowledge Services institutional subscription or via open access publishers
- Share articles with colleagues over email, Twitter and Facebook
- Organize and review your personal collection of articles
Follow these instructions to get started.
Techstreet
New standards database - Techstreet
Following detailed consultation and trial, Epworth is replacing our former standards provider SAI Global with Techstreet.
Techstreet provides access to standards published in Australia and around the world through a user-friendly platform. Users can view subscribed and unsubscribed standards, amendments, superseded documents, and popular standards. Registered users can receive alerts, create customised lists and more.
N.B. Australian Standards now apply digital rights management (DRM). FileOpen is required to view documents.
Find out more about Techstreet here.
eTG Update
What's new? eTG update
Therapeutic Guidelines have extensively revised their guidelines for Liver Disorders, Pain and Analgesia, Respiratory and Sexual and Reproductive Health.Available in eTG Complete on 17 December 2020.
COVID-19 Updates - Vaccine, Recovery and Rehabilitation
Vaccine Updates
- Australia has entered into 5 separate agreements for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, if they are proved to be safe and effective.
- The National Health Department has developed a COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatment Strategy.
- To safeguard the medical materials supply chain during COVID-19 and future emergencies, rather than a stockpile, this paper recommends developing "a network of repositories, fluid inventories, and analytic monitoring governed by the experts".
- See the CDC vaccine updates
- The US National Institutes of Health have interim results from trials of NIH-Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.
- the Australian Government has provided information about the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine for COVID-19
- A review of the progress and challenges of developing a vaccine for COVID-19
- COVID-19: UK approves Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine with rollout due to start next week BMJ 2020;371:m4714
- UpToDate looks at Moderna, Pfeizer, Sputnik V and other vaccines
Recovery and Rehabilitation Updates
- Emerging aspects of the clinical presentation associated with COVID-19 are persistent, long-term effects, frequently referred to as ‘Long COVID’ or even ‘long haulers'.
- The term Chronic COVID Syndrome (CCS) is recommended as the medical terminology to describe the now well-recognised chronicity seen in COVID-19.
- In the UK, key evidence groups NICE, SIGN and RCGP are jointly developing a guideline on persistent effects of Long COVID to help health services align and ensure patients at risk, receive consistent care.
- Rehabilitation and COVID-19: a rapid living systematic review 2020 by Cochrane Rehabilitation Field. Update as of September 30th, 2020. This rapid living systematic review synthesizes the COVID-19 and rehabilitation literature - providing monthly updates. New cohort studies investigating what impairments may result from COVID-19 infection in the medium term will help in determining how to target healthcare resources.
- Evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation (Cochrane Special Collection).
- The Stanford Hall consensus statement for post-COVID-19 rehabilitation
- Systematic Review of Changes and Recovery in Physical Function and Fitness After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–Related Coronavirus Infection: Implications for COVID-19 Rehabilitation.
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