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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update September 21 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

Principles for designing the built environment of mental health services. AUS
Lancet Psychiatry:2020:7(10):915-20 Full text

‘I just hope they take it seriously’: homeless men talk about their health care. AUS
Australian Health Review:2020: September 14 Full text

Interventions to support Choosing Wisely for coagulation studies in the emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2020: September 15 Full text

The development and implementation of a rapid‐access long‐acting injectable buprenorphine clinic in metropolitan Melbourne during the COVID‐19 pandemic. STV
Drug and Alcohol Review:2020: September 8 Full text

Diuretic lounge and the impact on hospital admissions for treatment of decompensated heart failure.
QJM:2020:113(9):651-66 Full text

Homelessness: a ‘cause of the causes’ of cardiovascular disease?
Heart:2020:106(19):1456-1457 Full text

Cardiovascular disease in homeless versus housed individuals: a systematic review of observational and interventional studies.
Heart:2020:106(19):1483-1488
Full text

Telemedicine for chronic pain in the COVID-19 era and beyond.
Pain Medicine:2020: September 11 Full text

A biopsychosocial model of chronic pain for older adults.
Pain Medicine:2020:21(9):1793-1805 Full text

Association of intra-arrest transport vs continued on-scene resuscitation with survival to hospital discharge among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
JAMA:2020:
324(11):1058-1067 Full text

Determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria: The World Brain Death Project.
JAMA:2020:
324(11):1078-1097 Full text

Who cares for the bereaved? A national survey of family caregivers of people with motor neurone disease. SVHA
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotempiral Dementia:2020: September 10 Full text

Retention of point-of-care ultrasound skills among practicing physicians: findings of the VA national point-of-care ultrasound training program.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: September 13 Full text

Association of intraoperative anaesthesia handovers with patient morbidity and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2020:125(4):605-13 Full text

Effectiveness of a high volume injection as treatment for chronic Achilles tendinopathy: randomised controlled trial.
BMJ:2020:
370:m3027 Full text

Detection rates of missing microsurgical needles using intra‐operative imaging. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: September 11 Full text

SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a meta-analysis of the EMPEROR-Reduced and DAPA-HF trials.
Lancet:2020:396(10254):819029
Full text

Empagliflozin in heart failure: diuretic and cardiorenal effects.
Circulation:2020:142(11):1028-39 Full text

Dapagliflozin and diuretic use in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction in DAPA-HF.
Circulation:2020:142(11):104054
Full text

Extracorporeal CO2 removal for stable hypercapnic COPD: is it really worth it?
Thorax:2020:75(10):824-25 Full text

Cannabidiol for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: a phase 2a, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, adaptive Bayesian trial.
Lancet Psychiatry:2020:7(10):865-74 Full text

Ambiguous medical abbreviation study: challenges and opportunities. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2020:50(9):1073-78 Full text

Clinicians Health Channel - BMJ Comordities

BMJ Comordities has been added to the resources available on the Clinicians Health Channel

This tool is an add-on to CHC's existing subscription to BMJ Best Practice. It is designed to support the management of the whole patient by offering guidance on the treatment of acute conditions alongside pre-existing comorbidities.

It is available in selected acute topics in BMJ Best Practice, including COVID-19.

Look out for the pink C+ symbol next to the Treatment Algorithm section within topics, and click on this to automatically launch the tool. You can view a list of all acute topics featuring the tool from the blue Comorbidities icon on the website home page, or from the app home screen.

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.