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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update July 26 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

Review article: Emergency department crowding measures associations with quality of care: a systematic review. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021:33(4):592-600 Full text

Emergency department usage by adults with cerebral palsy: a retrospective cohort study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: July 19 Full text

Rapid response teams as a patient safety practice for failure to rescue.
JAMA:2021:326(2):179-80 Full text

Failure to detect ward hypoxaemia and hypotension: contributions of insufficient assessment frequency and patient arousal during nursing assessments.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: July 21 Full text

The problem with ‘My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene’.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2021: July 14 Full text

Enhancing active patient participation in nursing handover: a mixed methods study. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: July 15 Full text

Hospitalisation for lower respiratory viral infections in older people in residential aged care facilities. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: June 30 Full text

Transitioning from hospital to palliative care at home: patient and caregiver perceptions of continuity of care.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2021:62(2):233-41 Full text

Effectiveness of interventions aiming to reduce inappropriate drug prescribing: an overview of interventions.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research:2021: July 16 Full text

The cost of pharmacovigilance: a time and motion study of an adverse drug reaction program. AUS
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice:2021: July 14 Full text

Frailty in cardiology: definition, assessment and clinical implications for general cardiology. A consensus document of the Council for Cardiology Practice (CCP), Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (ACNAP), European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), Council on Valvular Heart Diseases (VHD), Council on Hypertension (CHT), Council of Cardio-Oncology (CCO), Working Group (WG) Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases, WG e-Cardiology, WG Thrombosis, of the European Society of Cardiology, European Primary Care Cardiology Society (EPCCS).
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2021: July 16 Full text

Kidney function and outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021:78(4):330-43 Full text

Fluid balance and outcome in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury (CENTER-TBI and OzENTER-TBI): a prospective, multicentre, comparative effectiveness study. 
Lancet Neurology:2021:20(8):627-38 Full text

Association of blood pressure with the progression of CKD: findings from KNOW-CKD Study.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases:2021:78(2):236-45 Full text

Sarcopenia is associated with 3-month and 1-year mortality in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients: RESORT. SVHM
Age and Ageing:2021: July 12 Full text

Huff and puff of exercise for airway clearance in cystic fibrosis: how clear is the evidence? AUS
Thorax:2021:76(8):746-747 Full text

Incidental detection of prostate cancer with computed tomography scans. SVHM
Scientific Reports:2021:11:7956 Full text

A qualitative systematic review of the social eating and drinking experiences of patients following treatment for head and neck cancer.
Supportive Care in Cancer:2021:29:4899–4909 Full text

Association between the duration of physical restraint and pulmonary embolism in psychiatric patients: A nested case–control study using a Japanese nationwide database.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing:2021: July 20 Full text

Effect of platelet-rich plasma injection vs sham injection on tendon dysfunction in patients with chronic midportion achilles tendinopathy: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2021: July 13 Full text

Depressive symptoms, mental wellbeing, and substance use among adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland: a longitudinal, population-based study.
Lancet Psychiatry:2021:8(8):663-72 Full text

Understanding the substance use of autistic adolescents and adults: a mixed-methods approach.
Lancet Psychiatry:2021:8(8):673-85 Full text

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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