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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update September 28 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

Cost comparison of different models of palliative care delivery. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: September 23 Full text

Computerised clinical decision support systems and absolute improvements in care: meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials.
BMJ:
2020;370:m3216 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: September 5 Full text

Association of positive delirium screening with incident dementia in skilled nursing facilities.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2020: September 23
Full text

Video‐enhanced care management for medically complex older adults with cognitive impairment.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2020: September 23
Full text

Midline or long peripheral catheters in difficult venous access conditions? A comparative study in patients with acute cardiovascular diseases.
American Journal of Infection Control:2020:48(10):1158-65 Full text

A quality improvement study on the reduction of central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections by use of self-disinfecting venous access caps (STERILE).
American Journal of Infection Control:2020: September 21
Full text

Use of handheld point-of-care ultrasound in emergency airway management.
Chest:2020:September 21 Full text

Cardiac rehabilitation quality in Australia: proposed national indicators for field-testing. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020:29(9):1273-77 Full text

Embedding skin tone diversity into undergraduate nurse education: through the lens of pressure injury.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2020: August 26 Full text

Time course of LDL cholesterol exposure and cardiovascular disease event risk.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(13):1507-16 Full text

The effect of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on late-life cognitive disorders: a systematic review.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2020:21(10):1402-09 Full text

Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires. AUS
Nature Sustainability:2020: September 21 Full text

History of the plague: an ancient pandemic for the age of Covid-19.
American Journal of Medicine:2020: September 24 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.