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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update September 7 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

Touch in times of COVID‐19: touch hunger hurts.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2020: September 2 Full text

‘I used to be a gardener’: connecting aged care residents to gardening and to each other through communal garden sites. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: September 3 Full text

Frailty and risk of re‐hospitalisation and mortality for aged care residents following a fall injury hospitalisation. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2020: September 3
Full text

‘PDSAFE’ - a multi-dimensional model of falls-rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s. A mixed methods analysis of therapists’ delivery and experience.
Physiotherapy:2020: August 30 Full text

Physical therapist management of total knee arthroplasty.
Physical Therapy:2020:100(9):1603-31 Full text

Association of weekend effect with recovery after surgery.
JAMA Surgery:2020: August 26 Full text

Pancreatic cancer in the Australian population: identifying opportunities for intervention. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: August 31 Full text

Colorectal cancer in younger adults from a Bi‐National Colorectal Cancer Audit registry. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2020: August 28
Full text

Cancer prevention and screening for older adults: part 1. Lung, colorectal, bladder, and kidney cancer.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: September 3 Full text

Cancer prevention and screening for older adults: part 2. Interventions to prevent and screen for breast, prostate, cervical, ovarian, and endometrial cancer.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: September 3
Full text

Opioid prescriptions in patients with osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study.
Rheumatology:2020:59(9):2462-70 Full text

Long-term survival after surgical or percutaneous revascularization in patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary disease.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(10):1153-64 Full text

Coronary computed tomography angiography from clinical uses to emerging technologies: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2020:76(10):1226-43
Full text

Permanent transfemoral pacing: making things easier.
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: August 29 Full text

Cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in diagnosing coronary artery disease in the australian health care system. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2020: August 27 Full text

Effect of intraoperative low tidal volume vs conventional tidal volume on postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing major surgery: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2020: September 1 Full text

Clinicians Health Channel - New Drug Information Resources

Changes have been made to the resources available on the Clinicians Health Channel which is provided by the Victorian Government.

Paediatric Injectable Guidelines, and Renal Drug Database have been added.

Other additions will be coming soon:

  • Access to the mobile version of Therapeutic Guidelines (was available via SVHM)
  • Martindale’s Adverse Drug Reactions checker
  • Palliative Care Formulary
  • BMJ Comorbidities

Other resources have been removed or will be removed shortly:

  • OVID MD/Clinical Edge
  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Collection
  • STAT!Ref Dentistry Package
  • Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine

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.