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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update October 5 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

Displaying emergency patient estimated wait times: A multi‐centre, qualitative study of patient, community, paramedic and health administrator perspectives. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: September 28 Full text

No observed reduction of non-attendance rate in telehealth models of care. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020:44(5):657-60 Full text

Telehealth in inflammatory bowel disease. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: September 25 Full text

‘Employ Your Mind’: a pilot evaluation of a programme to help people with serious mental illness obtain and retain employment. STV
Australasian Psychiatry:2020: September 22 Full text

The cancer care observation: an empathy training experience. STV
Australasian Psychiatry:2020: September 22 Full text

“We’re very much part of the team here”: A culture of respect for Indigenous health workforce transforms Indigenous health care. STV
PLoS One. 2020: September 22 Full text

Sharing the helm: medical co‐management for the older surgical patient. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: September 30 Full text

Preoperative anaemia management in patients undergoing vascular surgery.
British Journal of Surgery:2020: September 30 Full text

Diabetes in ischaemic stroke in a regional Australian hospital – uncharted territory. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: September 28 Full text

Quantifying the economic benefit of the personal alarm and emergency response system in Australia: a cost analysis of the reduction in ambulance attendances. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020: September 22 Full text

Randomized controlled trial of a novel communication device assessed during noninvasive ventilation therapy.
Chest:2020: October 1 Full text

Evaluation of inpatient oxygen therapy in hypercapnic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: September 27 Full text

Microbiological efficacy and skin tolerance of commonly used non-antiseptic inpatient bathing practices in non-ICU settings: a systematic review.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: October 1 Full text

Plasma ACE2 and risk of death or cardiometabolic diseases: a case-cohort analysis.
Lancet:2020:396(10256):968-76 Full text

Clinical implication of ‘obesity paradox’ in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: October 1 Full text

No effect of sleeved arms on the accuracy of blood pressure measurement.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: September 25 Full text

HPV vaccination and the risk of invasive cervical cancer.
New England Journal of Medicine:2020: October 1 Full text

Epigenetic age acceleration and chronic health conditions among adult survivors of childhood cancer.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2020: September 25 Full text

Statin use and risk of joint replacement due to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: a propensity-score matched longitudinal cohort study.
Rheumatology:2020:59(10):2898-2907 Full text

Periodontal disease and incident dementia: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)
Neurology:2020:95(12):1610-71 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.