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
Innovative staffing solutions to nursing shortages in acute mental health inpatient wards.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2021: September 27 Full text
Six Sigma in surgery: how to create a safer culture in the operating theatre using innovative technology.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2021: September 27 Full text
Unplanned blood use within 24 hours of emergency department presentation: A cohort study in an ageing population. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: September 26 Full text
Clinical presentation and assessment of older patients presenting with headache to emergency departments: A multicentre observational study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2021: September 27 Full text
A framework for purposeful utilization of laboratory tests in hospitalized patients.
American Journal of Medicine:2021: September 17 Full text
Elements of integrated palliative care in chronic heart failure across the care continuum: a scoping review. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2021: September 27 Full text
How do we define and measure sarcopenia? A meta-analysis of observational studies.
Age and Ageing:2021: September 9 Full text
Comparison of depressive symptom outcomes in hospitalized adult cancer patients receiving music therapy or massage therapy.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2021: September 23 Full text
Bariatric surgery and risk of new-onset inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide cohort study.
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis:2021:15(9):1474-80 Full text
Newer biologic and small-molecule therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: September 30 Full text
Epidemiology of acute pancreatitis in Australia from 2007–2019. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2021: September 27 Full text
Acute pancreatitis: the increasing role of medical management of a traditionally surgically managed disease.
American Journal of Medicine:2021: September 22 Full text
Is dysphagia under diagnosed or is normal swallowing more variable than we think? Reported swallowing problems in people aged 18–65 years.
Dysphagia:2021:36:910-18 Full text
Nitrous oxide-induced neurological disorders – an increasing public health concern. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: September 27 Full text
Decision aids for shared decision-making and appropriate anticoagulation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing:2021: September 22 Full text
Effectiveness of pictograms in patients or caregivers in healthcare settings: a systematic review.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research:2021: September 24 Full text
Selected new systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library September 2021:
SARS‐CoV‐2‐neutralising monoclonal antibodies for treatment of COVID‐19
Integrated disease management interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Cannabinoids for the treatment of dementia
Monitoring of gastric residual volume during enteral nutrition
Palliative care interventions in advanced dementia
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