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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update August 10 2020

Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin including feature articles across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical topics

Knowledge Update

Library Services' Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin which includes feature articles across a wide range of topics, new physical and e-books in the Library, and websites of interest.

Access to full text articles is available both on and offsite using a St Vincent's login.

St. Vincent's Hospital staff wishing to be notified when a new issue has been published can join the notification list by contacting Jeremy.Taylor@svha.org.au 

Feature Articles

Palliative care physicians' preparation and planning for the implementation of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act in Victoria. SVHM
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: August 3
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Improving medical students’ confidence in end‐of‐life consultations.
Clinical Teacher:2020: July 30 Full text

Characteristics of family meetings for patients with advanced disease in an Australian metropolitan tertiary hospital. SVHM
BMJ Palliative and Supportive care:2020: July 27 Full text

Physical health assessment and cardiometabolic monitoring practices across three adult mental health inpatient units – a retrospective cohort study. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2020: August 2 Full text

Implementing national mental health carer partnership standards in South Australia. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020: August 5 Full text

Impact of a new specialist alcohol and drug brief intervention service model integrated into the emergency department: An interrupted time series analysis. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: July 31 Full text

Nursing handoffs and clinical judgments regarding patient risk of deterioration: A mixed‐methods study.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2020: July 9 Full text

Antibiotic allergy labels and optimal antimicrobial stewardship. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: August 3 Full text

Repositioning for pressure injury prevention in adults. SVHM
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews:2020:Issue 6. Art. No.: CD009958 Full text

High‐sensitivity troponin T use in non‐chest pain presentations in the emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: August 2
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Influence of influenza infection on in-hospital acute myocardial infarction outcomes.
American Journal of Cardiology:2020:130:7-14 Full text

Sudden cardiac death in schizophrenia: a review.
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: August 3 Full text

Loop diuretic prescription and 30-day outcomes in older patients with heart failure.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(6):669-79 Full text

Validation of the “doorbell test”: a novel functional test of frailty and clinical status after acute decompensated heart failure. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020:29(7):1054-62 Full text

Association of prestroke metformin use, stroke severity, and thrombolysis outcome.
Neurology:2020:94(4):e362-73 Full text

Deep brain stimulation in early-stage Parkinson disease: five-year outcomes.
Neurology:2020:94(4):e393-401
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Surgery versus cast immobilisation for adults with a bicortical fracture of the scaphoid waist (SWIFFT): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, randomised superiority trial.
Lancet:2020:396(10248):390-401 Full text

Bedside ultrasonography for acute gallstone disease: a diagnostic accuracy study of surgical registrars and emergency medicine physicians.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: July 31 Full text

Young people in Australian residential aged care: evaluating trends from 2008 to 2018. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020: July 29
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Libkey Nomad

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All you have to do is simply download the LibKey Nomad extension and then associate it with the Library's Browzine account -https://browzine.com/libraries/978/subjects?sort=rank

If you click on the LibKey button to download the PDF and it is not available, you will be lead back to the Library's journal finder site, where you can see access options available, and request the article from us if no access is available.