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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The impact of COVID-19 critical illness on new disability, functional outcomes and return to work at 6 months: a prospective cohort study. STV
Critical Care:2021: November 8 Full text
Viability of hospital pathogens on mobile phone.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: 16 November Full text
A multi-phase intervention of novel color additive for bleach disinfectant wipes improves thoroughness of cleaning in an academic medical center.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: 16 November Full text
Effect of Safewards on reducing conflict and containment and the experiences of staff and consumers: A mixed-methods systematic review. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2021: November 12 Full text
Attitudes, practices, and experiences of medical specialists towards email communication with their patients.
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: November 15 Full text
Sex differences in the pattern of patient referrals to male and female surgeons.
JAMA Surgery:2021: November 10 Full text
A novel combined resilience and advance care planning intervention for adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer: a feasibility and acceptability cohort study.
Cancer:2021:127(23):4504-11 Full text
Patients’ experiences of a Communication Enhanced Environment model on an acute/slow stream rehabilitation and a rehabilitation ward following stroke: a qualitative description approach. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2021: November 15 Full text
Effect of a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team on patient mortality.
American Journal of Cardiology:2021:161:102-07 Full text
2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021: October 28 Full text
2021 CSANZ and ANZSCTS Position Statement on the Operator and Institutional Requirements for a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Program in Australia. STV
Heart Lung and Circulaton:2021:30(12):1811-18 Full text
Colchicine in patients with acute coronary syndrome: two-year follow-up of the Australian COPS Randomized Clinical Trial. STV
Circulation:2021:144(19):1584-86 Full text
Risk of drug-induced interstitial lung disease in hospitalised patients: a nested case–control study.
Thorax:2021:76(12):1193-99 Full text
Prothrombin complex concentrates for the urgent reversal of apixaban and rivaroxaban – an Australian retrospective cohort study. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: November 15 Full text
Effect of β-blocker withdrawal on functional capacity in heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2021:78(21):2042-56 Full text
Association of physical activity, including amount and maintenance, with all-cause mortality in Parkinson disease.
JAMA Neurology:2021: November 1 Full text
Applied Statistical Considerations for Clinical Researchers by 
Hidden and Lesser-Known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions by How to translate research discoveries to practice, and how to learn from clinical practice about what research needs to be conducted, are not easy tasks. Implementation Science seeks to assist in helping close the gap between the clinical evidence base and the care that is actually delivered in healthcare settings.
The Implementation Science Resource Directory from MACH - the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (of which St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne is a member) provides some useful curated starting points in learning about and utilising this discipline
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
