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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update March 29 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.
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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

What’s wrong with you?
JAMA Neurology:2021:78(3):269-70 Full text

Attitudes of Australian psychologists towards the delivery of therapy via video conferencing technology. AUS
Australian Psychologist:2021: March 11 Full text

Australian psychologists' perceptions on their role in endoflife care of older adults. AUS
Australian Psychologist:2021: March 11 Full text

The effect of a quality improvement intervention on sleep and delirium in critically ill patients in a surgical intensive care unit.
Chest:2021: March 24 Full text

Screening for delirium in the intensive care unit using eDIS-ICU – a purpose-designed app: A pilot study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: March 22 Full text

Do selfreported hearing and visual impairments predict longitudinal dementia in older adults?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: March 21 Full text

The effects of four doses of vitamin D supplements on falls in older adults: a response-adaptive, randomized clinical trial .
Annals of Internal Medicine:2021:174(2):145-56 Full text

Unreadiness for hospital discharge predicts readmission among cardiac patients: results from the national DenHeart survey.
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing:2021: March 11 Full text

Mental health illness in chronic respiratory disease is associated with worse respiratory health and low engagement with nonpharmacological psychological interventions. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: 51(3):414-18 Full text

Prolonged heart rate recovery time after 6-minute walk test is an independent risk factor for cardiac events in heart failure: a prospective cohort study.
Physiotherapy:2021: March 22 Full text

Recreational substance use among patients with premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Heart:2021:107(8):650-56 Full text

Infection prevention practices and the use of medical tapes.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: March 22 Full text

The role of perioperative hypothermia in the development of surgical site infection: a systematic review.
AORN:2021:113(3):265-75 Full text

Discontinuing β-lactam treatment after 3 days for patients with community-acquired pneumonia in non-critical care wards (PTC): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial.
Lancet:2021: March 25 Full text

Novel renal biomarkers of acute kidney injury and their implications.
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: March 18 Full text

The role of self-efficacy and catastrophizing in explaining improvements in disability, pain and fatigue among patients with chronic widespread pain treated with physiotherapy: An exploratory analysis.
Physiotherapy:2021: March 24 Full text

Effect of aspirin on cancer incidence and mortality in older adults. AUS
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2021:113(3):258-65 Full text

Migraine: integrated approaches to clinical management and emerging treatments.
Lancet:2021: March 25 Full text

New Journals for 2021

We have new journals for you in 2021 form Oxford University Press.

Note that for some, archive content has not been added as yet, as they were previously published by another publisher.

 

New Library Resource - Access Medicine

The Library provides McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine, an online portal of books and a multimedia library, including procedural videos.

You can also create a personal account to save CME tests and links to favourite resources.

Some of the well known books on Access Medicine include:

  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
  • Goodman & Gilman’s: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
  • Hurst’s The Heart
  • Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine
  • LANGE Current Diagnosis and Treatment Series