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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update January 17 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

Family carer needs in advanced disease: systematic review of reviews. STV
BMJ Palliative and Supportive Care:2022: January 7 Full text

Being a safe place: a qualitative study exploring perceptions as to how a rural community hospice could respond to enactment of voluntary assisted dying legislation. AUS
BMC Palliative Care:2021: January 7 Full text

Nursing workforce, education, and training challenges to implementing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation services in Australian intensive care units: a qualitative substudy. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2022: January 10 Full text

Current practice, education, and recommendations for training of central line insertion for trainees and fellows in adult ICUs across Australia and New Zealand.  AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: January 11 Full text

It’s not just in the walls: patient and staff experiences of a new spatial design for psychiatric inpatient care.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2021:42(12):1114-22 Full text

Overdose and take-home naloxone in emergency settings: a pilot study examining feasibility of delivering brief interventions addressing overdose prevention with ‘take-home naloxone’ in emergency departments. STV
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2022: January 12 Full text

Prehabilitation, enhanced recovery after surgery, or both? A narrative review.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2022: January 7 Full text

Reasons for preoperative opioid use are associated with persistent use following surgery among patients undergoing total knee and hip arthroplasty.
Pain Medicine:2022:23(1):19-28 Full text

Effect of dexamethasone as an analgesic adjuvant to multimodal pain treatment after total knee arthroplasty: randomised clinical trial.
BMJ:2022: January 4 Full text

Management of atrial fibrillation in patients 75 years and older: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2022:79(2):166-79 Full text

Latest evidence on the management of early-stage and locally advanced rectal cancer: a narrative review. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2022: January 9 Full text

Antibiotics use and subsequent risk of colorectal cancer: a Swedish nationwide population-based study.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2022:114(1):38-46 Full text

Management of status epilepticus: a narrative review.
Anaesthesia:2022: January 10 Full text

Risk factors and incidence of long-COVID syndrome in hospitalized patients: does remdesivir have a protective effect?
QJM:2021:114(12):865-71 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. Support: video tutorials and Statalist community forum. 

More resources for researchers at SVHM
Clinical Researcher resources at SVHA