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.
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Understanding end-of-life care in Australian hospitals. SVHM
Australian Health Review:2021: June 2 Full text
From metrics to practice: identifying preventable emergency department visits for patients with cancer.
Supportive Care in Cancer:2021:29(7):3571–75 Full text
Attitudes and practices towards palliative care in chronic heart failure: a survey of cardiovascular nurses and physicians. AUS
Contemporary Nurse:2021: May 28 Full text
A narrative inquiry approach to understanding senior intensive care nurses’ experiences of working with new graduate nurses. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: April 23 Full text
Case study of a stepped-care psychological service for healthcare professionals working in critical care. AUS
Australian Health Review:2021: June 1 Full text
Patient and mental health care professionals’ perspectives on health promotion in psychiatric clinical practice: a focus group study.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2021: May 28 Full text
Remote cardiac rehabilitation services and the digital divide: implications for elderly populations during the COVID19 pandemic. AUS
European Journal of Cardiac Nursing:2021: May 31 Full text
Assessing operating theatre efficiency: a prospective cohort study to identify intervention targets to improve efficiency. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2021: June 1 Full text
Preoperative opioid use: a modifiable risk factor for poor postoperative outcomes.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: June 2 Full text
Over-oxygenation in the acute hospital setting: an implementation failure in need of an implementation science solution. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021:51(5):633-35 Full text
Evaluation of inpatient oxygen therapy in hypercapnic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021:51(5):654-59 Full text
The Oxygen project: a prospective study to assess the effectiveness of a targeted intervention to improve oxygen management in hospitalised patients. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021:51(5): 660-65 Full text
Perioperative dexmedetomidine and 5-year survival in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: May 31 Full text
Obesity and all cause mortality following acute coronary syndrome (ANZACS QI 53).
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2021: May 31 Full text
Effect of implantable vs prolonged external electrocardiographic monitoring on atrial fibrillation detection in patients with ischemic stroke :The PER DIEM Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2021: June 1 Full text
Cardiovascular risk prediction in type 2 diabetes before and after widespread screening: a derivation and validation study.
Lancet:2021: June 2 Full text
Convergence of geriatrics and palliative care to deliver personalized supportive care for older adults with cancer.
Journal of Clinical Oncology:2021: May 27 Full text
Sarcopenia in the older adult with cancer.
Journal of Clinical Oncology:2021: May 27 Full text
Specific contribution of quadriceps muscle strength, endurance, and power to functional exercise capacity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a multicenter study.
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Journal:2021:101(6): pzab052 Full text
Reliability and validity of a modified version of the Community Balance and Mobility Scale (CBMS-Home) for use in home assessment. AUS
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Journal:2021: June 1 Full text
Suicide in anaesthetists: a systematic review.
Anaesthesia:2021: June 1 Full text
When empathy matters most.
American Journal of Medicine:2021: May 31 Full text
Selected new systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library, May 2021. Included are five reviews on preventing or treating pressure ulcers, with co-author Elizabeth McInnes from St Vincent's Nursing Research Institute.
Pressure ulcers:
Alternating pressure (active) air surfaces for preventing pressure ulcers
Beds, overlays and mattresses for treating pressure ulcers
Reactive air surfaces for preventing pressure ulcers
Alternative reactive support surfaces (non‐foam and non‐air‐filled) for preventing pressure ulcers
Foam surfaces for preventing pressure ulcers
Other:
Serum or plasma ferritin concentration as an index of iron deficiency and overload
Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women
Anticoagulation versus placebo for heart failure in sinus rhythm
Non‐drug therapies for the secondary prevention of lower limb muscle cramps
Single‐dose intravenous ketorolac for acute postoperative pain in adults
Exercise‐based cardiac rehabilitation for adults after heart valve surgery
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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