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
COVID-19 pandemic 2020 - a tertiary Melbourne hospital's experience. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: January 23 Full text
Frailty and mortality associations in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: January 23 Full text
Provision of end-of-life care in primary care: a survey of issues and outcomes in the Australian context. AUS
BMJ Open:2022: January 19 Full text
Retrospective study on the factors influencing the severity of pressure injuries among intensive care unit patients.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2022: January 16 Full text
Peer support for discharge from inpatient mental health care versus care as usual in England (ENRICH): a parallel, two-group, individually randomised controlled trial.
Lancet Psychiatry:2022:9(2):125-36 Full text
Metformin and mortality after surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2022: January 26 Full text
Patient perspectives on delirium and cognitive dysfunction after surgery: a cross-sectional survey.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2022: January 24 Full text
Readmissions from venous thromboembolism after complex cancer surgery.
JAMA Surgery:2022: January 26 Full text
Oral contraceptive use in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: absolute cancer risks and benefits.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2022: January 20 Full text
Clinical outcomes in patients with delayed hospitalization for non–st-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2022:79(4):311-23 Full text
Risks of stroke recurrence and mortality after first and recurrent strokes in Denmark: a nationwide registry study.
Neurology:2022:98(4):e329-e342 Full text
Association of ischemic stroke incidence, severity, and recurrence with dementia in the atherosclerosis risk in communities cohort study.
JAMA Neurology:2022: January 24 Full text
Light to moderate coffee consumption is associated with lower risk of death: a UK Biobank study.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2022: January 20 Full text
The following data reports from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare have been recently updated:
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.
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Clinical Researcher resources at SVHA
