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.
OA indicates that an article is open access and can be accessed by anyone
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Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid Older Adults (OPERAM): cluster randomised controlled trial.
BMJ:2021:374:n1585 Full text
Effect of a hospital and postdischarge quality improvement intervention on clinical outcomes and quality of care for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: The CONNECT-HF Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2021: July 27 Full text
A co-designed integrated kidney and diabetes model of care improves mortality, glycaemic control and self-care. AUS
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation:2021: July 26 Full text
Health-related quality of life and symptoms of conservative care versus dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease: a systematic review.
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation:2021:36(8):1418-33 Full text
The perceived barriers and facilitators to implementation of early mobilisation within a multicentre, phase 3 randomised controlled trial: A qualitative process evaluation study. STV
Australian Critical Care:2021: July 25 Full text
The impact of distance on post-ICU disability. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: July 25 Full text
Airway devices for awake tracheal intubation in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: July 22 Full text
Safety of using enteral nutrition formulations containing dietary fiber in hospitalized critical care patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition:2021: June 24 Full text
Impact of early nutrition route in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A retrospective cohort study.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition:2021: June 24 Full text
How old is old? Identifying a chronological age and factors related with the perception of old age.
Journal of the American Geriatric Society:2021: July 26 Full text
Interventions for preventing falls and fall-related fractures in community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: July 28 Full text
How dirty are the pens in health-care environment༟An easily overlooked detail of hand hygiene.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: July 25 Full text
Serum albumin and risks of hospitalization and death: Findings from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: July 23 Full text
Radiofrequency ablation for chronic hip pain: a comprehensive, narrative review. Pain Medicine:2021:22(Supplement 1):S14-19 Full text
Effect of 7 vs 14 days of antibiotic therapy on resolution of symptoms among afebrile men with urinary tract infection: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2021: July 27 Full text
Coffee consumption and incident tachyarrhythmias: reported behavior, mendelian randomization, and their interactions.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2021: July 19 Full text
The unbreakable bond: the mental health benefits and challenges of pet ownership for people experiencing homelessness. AUS
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2021:42(8):741-46 Full text
How I review a paper to help improve citability and impact. Chest:2021: July 28 Full text
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is a great source of all kinds of information and statistics on many aspects of health and welfare in Australia, with new material being added frequently. AIHW also produces the comprehensive reports Australia's Health, and Australia's Welfare.
You can view the most recent reports, browse reports by catgerory, or search by keyword.
They have also added a specific page to present reports and dat in relation to COVID-19 in Australia
Some recent releases include:
Covidence is online software specifically created for facilitating the writing of systematic reviews. St Vincent's now has an institutional licence, if you would like to gain access please contact the Library on library.svhmlibrary@svha.org.au
EndNote is bibliographic management software that allows you to store records of references, their full text PDF, organise them, and cite them in a Word document to create formatted bibliographies. Request the software for your computer while working from home by emailing library.svhmlibrary@svha.org.au. To learn more see the EndNote Library Guide.
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Register for SVHM access here. Support is available from svhs.redcap@svha.org.au
STATA is software for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. STATA 12 is available from your PC, for access while working from home request access from IT. Statalist is a popular community forum.
More resources for researchers at SVHM
Clinical Researcher resources at SVHA