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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update August 30 2021

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.
OA indicates that an article is open access and can be accessed by anyone

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

Collaborative approach to supporting staff in a mental healthcare setting: “Always There” Peer Support Program. AUS
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2021: August 17 Full text

Electronic consultations (eConsults): a proof of concept trial in Australia. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: August 25 Full text

Telemedicine and telehealth in nursing homes: an integrative review.
Journal of the Medical Directors Association:2021:22(9):1784-1801 Full text

My hip journey: A qualitative study of patients’ experiences of an eHealth program for patient preparation and recovery from hip replacement surgery. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: August 24 Full text

Is comprehensive geriatric assessment admission avoidance hospital at home an alternative to hospital admission for older persons?: a randomized trial.
Annals of Internal Medicine:2021:174(7):889-98 Full text

Preventing hospital readmission for patients with comorbid substance use disorder: a randomized trial.
Annals of Internal Medicine:2021:174(7):899-909 Full text

Staff perceptions of family access and visitation policies in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units: The WELCOME-ICU survey. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: August 26 Full text

Functional outcomes following an in-hospital cardiac arrest: A retrospective cohort study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: August 26 Full text

The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in predicting mortality and morbidity in people with congenital heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2021: August 18 Full text

Insomnia, a new modifiable risk factor for heart failure?
European Heart Journal:2021: August 21 Full text

Statin associated lower cancer risk and related mortality in patients with heart failure.
European Heart Journal:2021:42(32):3049-59 Full text

Heparin resistance — clinical perspectives and management strategies.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: August 26 Full text

Current and future status of JAK inhibitors.
Lancet:2021:398(10302):803-16 Full text

Clostridium difficile Infection after orthopedic surgery: incidence, associated factors, and impact on outcome.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: August 23 Full text

Early-onset colorectal cancer: the mystery remains.
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute: 2021: August 18 Full text

Phantom limb pain: thinking outside the (mirror) box.
Brain:2021:144(7):1929-39 
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Cognitive stimulation in the workplace, plasma proteins, and risk of dementia: three analyses of population cohort studies.
BMJ:2021:374:n1804 Full text

Pilates improves physical performance and decreases risk of falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Physiotherapy:2021:112:163-77 Full text

Feasibility of group-based multiple virtual reality sessions to reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms in persons living in residential aged care.
Journal of the Medical Directors Association:2021: August 26 Full text

Barriers to learning a new technology to go online among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: August 19 Full text

Postintensive care syndrome in survivors of critical illness related to coronavirus disease 2019: cohort study From a New York City critical care recovery clinic.
Critical Care Medicine:2021:49(9):1427-38 Full text

Environmental testing for SARS-CoV-2 in three tertiary-care hospitals during the peak of the third COVID-19 wave.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: August 26 Full text

Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from universally masked healthcare workers to patients or residents: a prospective cohort study.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: August 27
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Research tools available at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

 

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. 

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