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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update September 27 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

A systematic review of the effectiveness of Safewards: has enthusiasm exceeded evidence?
Issues In Mental Health Nursing:2021: September 17 Full text

Do patients respond to posted emergency department wait times: time-series evidence from the Implementation of a Wait Time Publication System in Hamilton, Canada.
Annals of Emergency Medicine:2021:78(4):465-73 Full text

Physiotherapy-assisted prone or modified prone positioning in ward-based patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study. STV
Physiotherapy:2021: September 24 Full text

The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on occupational balance: A mixed method study of the experience of Australian occupational therapists. STV
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal:2021: September 23 Full text

Impact of the modification of a cleaning and disinfection method of mechanical ventilators of COVID-19 patients and ventilator-associated pneumonia: one year of experience.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: September 20 Full text

Changes in nursing team composition and risk of device-associated infection in intensive care units.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: September 17 Full text

Protein prescription and delivery practices in critically ill adults: a survey of Australian and New Zealand intensive care dietitians. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2021: September 21 Full text

Oral care practices in stroke: findings from the UK and Australia. STV
BMC Nursing:2021: September 15 Full text

A long-term community gym program for people with Parkinson’s disease: a feasibility study of the Monash Health “Health and Fitness” model. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2021: September 21  
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Home mirror therapy: a randomized controlled pilot study comparing unimanual and bimanual mirror therapy for improved arm and hand function post-stroke.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2021: September 19 Full text

How i do it: making effective educational videos for clinical teaching.
Chest:2021: September 26 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. 

More resources for researchers at SVHM
Clinical Researcher resources at SVHA