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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update August 17 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

COVID-19's impact on Australia's health research workforce.
Lancet:2020:396(10249):461 Full text

The Penicillin Allergy Delabeling Program: a multicenter whole-of-hospital health services intervention and comparative effectiveness study. SVHM
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2020: August 5 Full text

Does distance to hospital affect emergency department presentations and hospital length of stay among COPD patients? AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: August 12
Full text

Effect of exercise interventions in the early phase to improve physical function after hip fracture – a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Physiotherapy:2020:108:9097 Full text

Outcomes and anticoagulation use for elderly patients that present with an acute hip fracture: multi‐centre, retrospective analysis. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: August 12 Full text

Postoperative delirium: perioperative assessment, risk reduction, and management.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: August 11 Full text

Long-term adverse cardiac outcomes in patients with sarcoidosis.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(7):767-77 Full text

Optimum blood pressure in patients with shock after acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(7):812-24
Full text

Addition of corticosteroids to local anaesthetics for chronic non-cancer pain injections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
British Journal of Anaesthesia: August 12
Full text

Effect of aspirin on cancer incidence and mortality in older adults. AUS
Journal of the Nation Cancer Institute:2020: August 11 Full text

Expanding our understanding of ovarian cancer risk: the role of incomplete pregnancies. AUS
Journal of the Nation Cancer Institute:2020: August 7
Full text

Featured online books - Cardiology

Libkey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension for Chrome that allows you to quickly locate PDFs of article on websites where they are open access or available via St Vincent's Hospital Library susbcriptions. These include Pubmed and Google Scholar.

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.