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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update February 14 2022

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

Where next with frailty risk scores in hospital populations?
Age and Ageing:2022:51(1):afab203 Full text

Emergency department interventions for frailty (EDIFY): improving functional outcomes in older persons at the emergency department through a multicomponent frailty intervention.
Age and Ageing:2022: February 2 Full text

Factors that influence intensive care admission decisions for older people: a systematic review. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2022: February 7 Full text

A three-step support strategy for relatives of patients dying in the intensive care unit: a cluster randomised trial.
Lancet:2022:399(10325):656-64 Full text

Modifications to Rapid Response Team (Medical Emergency Team) activation criteria and its impact on patient safety.
Internal Medicine Journal: 2022: February 3 Full text

Geriatric home-based rehabilitation in Australia: preliminary data from an inpatient bed-substitution model. AUS
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: February 4 Full text

A comparative analysis of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and fall risk in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: February 8 Full text

Effect of opioids on cancer survival in patients with chronic pain: a propensity score-matched population-based cohort study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2022: February 8 Full text

Role of impaired iron transport on exercise performance in heart failure patients.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2022: February 4 Full text

Predicting when women will achieve equitable representation in four specialties: the WHEN Study.
American Journal of Medicine:2022: February 5 Full text

Barriers to healthy eating among nurses working in hospitals: a meta-synthesis.
Journal of Advanced Nursing:2022:78(2):314-31 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