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
Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying Act: navigating the section 8 gag clause.
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: 212(2):67-68 Full text
Self‐binding directives for mental health treatment: when advance consent is not effective consent. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: February 12 Full text
Clinical effectiveness of the elder-friendly approaches to the surgical environment initiative in emergency general surgery.
JAMA Surgery:2020: February 12 Full text
Impact of a model of care for heart failure in‐patients to reduce variation in care – a quality improvement project.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: February 11 Full text
Current state of home-based exercise interventions in patients with congenital heart disease: a systematic review.
Heart:2020:106(5):333-41 Full text
Patient perceptions of participation in emergency medicine research projects.
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: February 10 Full text
The role of patient portals in enhancing self-care in patients with renal conditions.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2020:13(1):1-7 Full text
Integrated care: enhancing transition from renal replacement therapy options to home haemodialysis.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2020:13(1):1-7 Full text
The role of intra‐operative cell salvage in patient blood management for revision hip arthroplasty: a prospective cohort study.
Aanesthesia:2020: February 9 Full text
Conservative versus interventional treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax. AUS
New England Journal of Medicine:2020: 382:405-415 Full text
Effect of incisional negative pressure wound therapy vs standard wound dressing on deep surgical site infection after surgery for lower limb fractures associated with major trauma: The WHIST Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2020:323(6):519-526 Full text
Association of surgical jacket and bouffant use with surgical site infection risk.
JAMA Surgery:2020: February 12 Full text
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and incidence of atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis.
QJM:2020:113(2):79-85 Full text
Lifestyle modifications for treatment of atrial fibrillation. AUS
Heart:2020:106(5):325-32 Full text
Algorithm based smartphone apps to assess risk of skin cancer in adults: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies.
BMJ:2020;368:m127 Full text
Smartphones and wearable technology: benefits and concerns in cardiology. STV
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: 212(2):54-56 Full text
Clinical manifestations of invasive meningococcal disease in Victoria with the emergence of serogroup W and serogroup Y Neisseria meningitides. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: February 11 Full text
The origin of our modern concept of depression—the history of melancholia from 1780-1880: a review.
JAMA Psychiatry:2020: January 29 Full text
Reflections on home.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: February 13 Full text
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