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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update October 12 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

Supporting effective doctor–patient communication: doctors’ name badges. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: October 4 Full text

Patientcentred measurement of recovery from daycase surgery using wrist worn accelerometers: a pilot and feasibility study.
Anaesthesia:2020: October 5 Full text

Establishing a hospitalbased ultrasoundguided peripheral intravenous catheter training programme: A narrative of a 5year experience. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: October 3 Full text

Emotionally evocative patients in the emergency department: a mixed methods investigation of providers’ reported emotions and implications for patient safety.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2020:29(10):1-2 Full text

Reducing preventable harm to residents in aged care: A systems approach. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: October 2 Full text

Care to the end. A retrospective observational study of aged care facility residents transferred to hospital in the last day of life. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: October 5 Full text

Inpatient usage of faecal calprotectin in a tertiary hospital. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: October 5 Full text

The provision of personcentred dementia care in the context of mental health comorbidities: ‘It can be upsetting and distressing and it’s incredibly sad’. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: October 4 Full text

Understanding the uptake of digital technologies for healthrelated purposes in frail older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: October 3 Full text

Differences in treatment choices for localised prostate cancer diagnosed in private and public health services. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2020: September 30 Full text

Association between exposure to general versus regional anesthesia and risk of dementia in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: October 6 Full text

Low vitamin D levels and risk of incident delirium in 351,000 older UK biobank participants.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: October 5 Full text

Pharmacological treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in Australia: current trends and challenges. AUS
Heart, Lung and Transplantation: 2020:29(10):1459-68 Full text

Acute kidney injury during hospitalization increases the risk for venous thromboembolism.
Chest:2020: September 5 Full text

Dapagliflozin in patients with chronic kidney disease.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020:383:1436-46 Full text

Cardiovascular and renal outcomes with empagliflozin in heart failure.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020:383:1413-24 Full text

A randomised controlled trial of chewing gum to relieve thirst in chronic heart failure (RELIEVE-CHF).
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: October 5 Full text

Clinical evaluation of rapid 3D printformed implants for surgical reconstruction of large cranial defects.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: October 5 Full text

Progress toward cardiac xenotransplantation.
Circulation:2020:142(14):1398-98 Full text

Sudden cardiac death in schizophrenia: a review.
Heart, Lung and Transplantation:2020: 29(10):1427-32 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.