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
Strengthening palliative care in the hospital setting: a codesign study. AUS
BMC Palliative Care:2020: October 28 Full text
A research approach for co‐designing education with healthcare consumers. AUS
Medical Education:2020: November 6 Full text
Exploring the use of ageing simulation to enable nurses to gain insight into what it is like to be an older person. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2020:29(23-24):4561-72 Full text
The Productivity Commission’s Draft Report illustrates the benefits and risks of economic perspectives on mental healthcare. AUS
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry:2020:54(11):1072-77 Full text
Discordance between patient‐reported and actual emergency department pain management.
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: November 22 Full text
Multicultural presentation of chest pain at an emergency department in Australia. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: November 24 Full text
COVID‐19 risk in elective surgery during a second wave: a prospective cohort study.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: November 24 Full text
Smoke but no fire: increased myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries in the Australian bushfires? SVHM
Internal Medicine Journal:2020:50(11):1439-40 Full text
Prevalence, incidence, and outcomes across cardiovascular diseases in homeless individuals using national linked electronic health records.
European Heart Journal:2020:41(41):4011-20 Full text
Intravascular lithotripsy for treatment of severely calcified coronary artery disease.
Journal of the American College of cardiology:2020:76(22):2635-46 Full text
Effect of blood pressure lowering drugs and antibiotics on abdominal aortic aneurysm growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AUS
Heart:2020: November 16 Full text
Midland non‐invasive ventilation score: a tool to predict non‐invasive ventilation failure in people with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: 50(11):1412-15 Full text
Non‐invasive haemoglobin measurement as an index test to detect pre‐operative anaemia in elective surgery patients – a prospective study.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 23 Full text
Association between plasma tau and postoperative delirium incidence and severity: a prospective observational study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: November 20 Full text
Once-weekly insulin for type 2 diabetes without previous insulin treatment.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020:383:2107-16 Full text
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare produces many reports per year, including the annual Australia's Health and Australia's Welfare.
Released November 25:
Australian bushfires 2019–20: exploring the short-term health impacts
This report examines a range of health data sources to assess the short-term health impacts of the bushfires, including: emergency department visits, prescription and purchase of asthma medicines, mental health service use and GP visits. Results show clear associations between increased bushfire activity, including poor air quality, and people seeking assistance for their health.
Released November 26:
Specialist Homelessness Services: monthly data
This report provides demographic data on people accessing homelessness services and reasons for doing so.
Mental health services in Australia
A regularly updated statistical report on many aspects of mental health care service use.
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:
