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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update November 9 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

Workplace stress, common mental disorder and suicidal ideation in junior doctors. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: November 2 Full text

Nurses’ attitudes and perceptions towards hand hygiene in mental health and medical inpatient settings: comparative, cross-sectional study.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2020:41(11):1011-18 Full text

Observational study of anaesthesia workflow to evaluate physical workspace design and layout.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: November 5 Full text

Assessment of the availability and utility of the paramedic record in the emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: November 2 Full text

Detecting delirium: a systematic review of identification instruments for non‐ICU settings.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: November 2 Full text

Assessment and management of urinary tract infections in aged care facilities. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: November 1Full text

Telehealth for Uptitration of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Heart Failure.
Circulation:2020:142(6):1507-09 Full text

Patients’ experiences with telecare for chronic pain and mood symptoms: a qualitative study.
Pain Medicine:2020:21(10):2137-45 Full text

Polypharmacy and emergency readmission to hospital after critical illness: a population-level cohort study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020: October 31 Full text

Variations in practice of thromboprophylaxis across general surgical subspecialties: a multicentre (PROTECTinG) study of elective major surgeries.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: October 30 Full text

Diagnosis and treatment of lower extremity venous thromboembolism: a review.
JAMA:2020:324(17):1765-76 Full text

Two-year outcome after implantation of a full magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device: results from the ELEVATE Registry.
European Heart Journal:2020: October 27 Full text

Determinants of cardiovascular risk in 7,000 youth with type 1 diabetes in the Australasian Diabetes Data Network. SVHM
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism:2020: October 30 Full text

High‐sensitivity cardiac troponin I for risk stratification in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: November 4 Full text

Evaluation and management of patients with stable angina: beyond the ischemia paradigm: JACC state-of-the-art review.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(10):2252-66 Full text

Comparison between ticagrelor and clopidogrel in elderly patients with an acute coronary syndrome: insights from the SWEDEHEART Registry.
Circulation:2020:
142:1700–1708 Full text

Colchicine in patients with chronic coronary disease.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020:383:1838-47 Full text

Glycemic status, insulin resistance, and the risk of nephrolithiasis: a cohort study.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases:2020: 76(5):658-68 Full text

Plant-based diets for kidney disease: a guide for clinicians.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases:2020: October 16 Full text

A multi‐phase quality improvement initiative for the treatment of active delirium in older persons.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: November 4 Full text

Effects of contemporary dance and physiotherapy intervention on balance and postural control in Parkinson’s disease.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2020: November 2 Full text

Complementary and integrative health interventions in post-stroke rehabilitation: a systematic PRISMA review.

Disability and Rehabilitation:2020: October 12 Full text

Elastic resistance training produces benefits similar to conventional resistance training in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and mate-analysis.
Physical Therapy:2020:100(11):1891-1905 Full text

Effect of donor age on adult unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplant outcome: the Australian experience. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: November 1 Full text

Efficacy and safety of gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis in critically ill patients: an updated systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials.
Intensive Care Medicine:2020:46:1987-2000 Full text

The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety.
Anaesthesia:2020: November 3 Full text

Hundreds of thousands of zombie randomised trials circulate among us.
Anaesthesia:2020: October 30 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.