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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update November 2 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

The use of a patient discharge lounge and the impact on 30-day hospital readmission.
Journal of Nursing Administration:2020:50(11):590-97 Full text

Identifying patients with low-risk of acute coronary syndrome without troponin testing: Validation of the HEAR score.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: October 27 Full text

Retrospective analysis of factors associated with a revised fall prevention bundle in hospitalized patients.
Journal of Nursing Administration:2020:50(11):571-77
Full text

Inpatient patient safety events in vulnerable populations: a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2020: October 26 Full text

Effects of home-based telerehabilitation in patients with stroke: A randomized controlled trial.
Neurology:2020:95(17):
e2318-e2330 Full text

Strengthening palliative care in the hospital setting: a codesign study. AUS
BMJ Palliative and Supportive Care:2020: October 28 Full text

In-hospital adverse drug reactions in older adults; prevalence, presentation and associated drugs—a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Age and Ageing:2020:49(6):948-58 Full text

Executive Summary: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations.
Circulation:2020: 142:16(Suppl. 1):S1 Full text

Adult Basic Life Support: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations.
Circulation:2020: 142:16(Suppl. 1):S41-91 Full text

Characterization of myocardial injury in patients with COVID-19.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:76(18):2043-55
Full text

Circulating omega-3 fatty acids and incident adverse events in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:76(18):2089-97 Full text

Prevalence of non-cardiac multimorbidity in patients admitted to two cardiac intensive care units and their association with mortality.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: October 28 Full text

Positron emission tomography imaging in cardiovascular disease.
Heart:2020:106(22):1712-18 Full text

Effect of catheter ablation with vein of marshall ethanol infusion vs catheter ablation alone on persistent atrial fibrillation: The VENUS Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2020: October 27 Full text

Myofascial release in patients during the early postoperative period after revascularisation of coronary arteries.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2020:42(23):3327-38 Full text

Acute cardiovascular events associated with influenza in hospitalized adults: a cross-sectional study.
Annals of Internal Medicine:2020:173(8):605-13
Full text

Blood cultures versus respiratory cultures: 2 different views of pneumonia.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2020:71(7):1604-12 Full text

Association of therapies with reduced pain and improved quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2020: October 26 Full text

Patients’ experiences with commercially available activity trackers embedded in physiotherapy treatment: a qualitative study.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2020:42(23):3482-92 Full text

Motor neuroprosthesis implanted with neurointerventional surgery improves capacity for activities of daily living tasks in severe paralysis: first in-human experience.
Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery:2020: October 28 Full text

Bioluminescence-based hygiene evaluation of public washroom environment: Repeated measurement of post-handwashing facilities on baseline and before and after cleaning schedule.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: October 27 Full text

New Library Trial - Access Medicine

The Library is currently trialling McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine, an online portal of books and a multimedia library, including procedural videos.

You can also create a personal account to save CME tests and links to favourite resources.

Some of the well known books on Access Medicine include:

  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
  • Goodman & Gilman’s: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
  • Hurst’s The Heart
  • Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine
  • LANGE Current Diagnosis and Treatment Series

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.