Research and Library Newsletter November 2025

Welcome to the Research and Library Newsletter

Issue snapshot:

Spotlight on the AWH Library
Research and Library 2025 report
Regional Research Symposium 2025
New Quality and Research project approval pathways
Check out the latest publications

Please share this newsletter with colleagues interested in research and library news. Email research@awh.org.au if you would like to join the mailing list.

Library staff

Library services

Help searching the book catalogue and borrowing books,
Help searching online databases for ebooks and journal articles,
Specialist literature searching services available for clinical cases and research,
Document delivery service for items outside our collection,
Staff training to find and reference quality, authoritative and current information resources. Individual and recorded training sessions available.

Resources and Collections

Hard copy book collection (800 titles) and comprehensive ebook collection (5000 titles) covering medicine, nursing, allied health and mental health,
Ovid Discovery allows searching across multiple databases to find ebooks and ejournals,
Access to clinical standards, procedures and guidelines, including Lippincott Procedures, Standards Australia, eMIMs, Therapeutic Guidelines, UpToDate, among others.

AWH Library Outreach Program

AWH Library has been providing an outreach program for four health services in our region (Tallangatta, Corryong, Alpine and Beechworth) since 2022. Through this program these health services have access to the same resources as Albury Wodonga Health staff for their education, training, and to provide evidence-based clinical care.

Read and publish agreements

The AWH library has secured Read and Publish agreements so that our researchers have access to read Open Access articles and publish Open Access free of charge.

Any staff members interested in publishing in a Taylor & Francis journal should contact the library to apply for a waiver of the Open Access publication fee through our Read and Publish agreement.

For staff members associated with UNSW, La Trobe or CSU, you can leverage the CAUL agreement. Check out the selection of journals here, and if you would like to publish in one of the listed titles, contact the library for assistance.

2025 Research and Library Report

Check out the stats below, or read the report and strategy document here.

October 2024 - October 2025

Note, this is a brief report, full reports are published biennially.

Regional Research Symposium

Stronger Together: Advancing Regional Research Through Collaboration

On Tuesday, 14 October 2025, UNSW and AWH partnered to present their second Regional Research Symposium at The Cube, Wodonga.

View symposium presentations here.

Local Dhudhuroa traditional owner, Derek Murray opened the event with a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony. The CEO for AWH, Bill Appleby provided the Official Welcome, while the Dean of Medicine and Health, Professor Cheryl Jones, provided our Keynote Address.

Over eighty people attended the event (in-person or online), and the local research topics included air quality, thunderstorm asthma, diabetes, palliative care, cancer services and anaesthetics research.

The event was co-funded equally by UNSW School of Clinical Medicine, Albury Wodonga Health and the UNSW Border Regional Training Hub. Thanks must go to the Regional Research Symposium Steering Committee: Anna Griffith (Chair), Mark Norden (UNSW), Marina van Leeuwen (UNSW and AWH), Jessica Borgh (AWH), Melissa Green (UNSW), Alexander McColl (UNSW), Jessica Franson (AWH), and Hannah Mahoney (UNSW Border Regional Training Hub).

New Approval Pathways for Quality and Research

A new pathway for the approval of Quality Improvement and Research projects at our service has been developed to ensure projects have the correct level of ethical and governance oversight for their complexity and the risk involved.

A Quality Improvement Review Panel will screen Quality Improvement projects for ethical review triggers. Investigators of QI projects requiring ethical review will be guided through the process by the Clinical Safety and Quality Unit and Research Office.

The CSQU has developed a suite of guidance documents to aid those undertaking Quality Improvement projects. See links below.

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Getting started on a Quality Improvement project

If you have an idea for a Quality Improvement project, get in touch with the CSQU. Here are the primary documents used to initiate and approve Quality Improvement projects.

For documents, templates and guidance on starting a Research project, see the Research Office website.

Recent publications

To browse AWH-affiliated publications, visit the Research Repository.

AWH author/s: Luke Baitch

Title and link: Challenges with labour epidural placement in a parturient with a lumbar arachnoid cyst: a case report

Aim: To describe the management of a patient with a lumbar arachnoid cyst requesting epidural labour analgesia.

AWH author/s: David Toro Tole

Title and link: A Rare Cause of Massive Scrotal Elephantiasis: Case Report and Literature Review

Aim: To present case of a 44-year-old Aboriginal man with progressive scrotal swelling 12 years after treatment for Stage IIIc nonseminomatous germ cell tumor, including inguinal orchidectomy, four cycles of bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin chemotherapy, and pc-RPLND for residual teratoma.

AWH author/s: Justin Jackson

Title and link: A case of fatal acute encephalitis syndrome secondary to Japanese encephalitis virus infection in Australia

Aim: Perform retrospective case analysis of a patient diagnosed with ultimately fatal Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) with discussion of clinical presentation and diagnostic challenges.

AWH author/s: Bern Squires

Title and link: Surgical bundle sustainability in caesarean section births: An integrative review

Aim: To identify and discuss the evidence supporting the combination of individual surgical bundle practices in CS births that contribute to SSI reduction and how these surgical bundle practices are sustained.

Research Round Table

The next Research Round Table Community of Practice meeting will be held on Wednesday 26th November at 12 noon.

Click here to join the Teams meeting.

This month, the Research Office and Clinical Safety and Quality Unit bring you an information session on how to get started with a Quality Improvement project.

Session includes:

Difference between Quality and Research activities
When is ethical review required for Quality Improvement projects?
The steps to getting started with a QI project

For recordings of previous Research Round Table meetings, visit the Research Office PD & Education webpage.

Research Office Reminders

Project submission process

Draft protocols for new projects are submitted to the Research Office 6 weeks before the AWH Human Research Ethics Committee (AWHHREC) meeting.

After review by the Research Office, researchers will be guided through submission to the AWHHREC on ERM.

2026 project submission dates

For further details, visit the Research Office website.

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