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
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Digital health and precision prevention: shifting from disease-centred care to consumer-centred health. AUS
Australian Health Review:2022:46(3):279-83 Full text
Cost-effectiveness of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine program. AUS
Australian Health Review:2022:46(3):294-301 Full text
Modifications to rapid response team (medical emergency team) activation criteria and its impact on patient safety. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: February 3 Full text
From little things, big things grow: an exploratory analysis of the national cost of peripheral intravenous catheter insertion in Australian adult emergency care. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2022: May 14 Full text
Prospective, multicentre observational study of point-of-care ultrasound practice in emergency departments across Australia and New Zealand: The POCUS-ED Registry. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2022: May 30 Full text
Communication pathways from the emergency department to community mental health services: A systematic review. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2022: May 22 Full text
Sikh religion and palliative care.
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care:2022:12(2):207-10 Full text
Family carer needs in advanced disease: systematic review of reviews.
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care:2022:12(2):132-41 Full text
The writing was on the wall: Decision making near the end of life in advanced liver disease.
Progress in Palliative Care:2022: May 25 Full text
Tube feeding in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy: A systematic review.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition:2022: Full text
Effectiveness of antimicrobial stewardship interventions on early switch from intravenous-to-oral antimicrobials in hospitalized adults: a systematic review.
American Journal of Infection Control:2022: May 27 Full text
Qualitative fit test outcomes for N95 filtering facepiece respirators in health care workers.
American Journal of Infection Control:2022: June 1 Full text
Virtual reality as a learning tool for improving infection control procedures.
American Journal of Infection Control:2022: June 1 Full text
Electronic alerts to improve heart failure therapy in outpatient practice: a cluster randomized trial.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2022:79(22):2203-13 Full text
Elderspeak communication and pain severity as modifiable factors to rejection of care in hospital dementia care.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: June 1 Full text
Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Age and Ageing:2022: 51(5):afac077 Full text
Effectiveness of surgical and non-surgical interventions for managing diabetic shoulder pain: a systematic review.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2022:44(10):1766-79 Full text
The vicious cycle of functional neurological disorders: a synthesis of healthcare professionals’ views on working with patients with functional neurological disorder.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2022:44(10):1802-11 Full text
Developing and internally validating a prediction model for total knee replacement surgery in patients with osteoarthritis. STV
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open:2022: May 28 Full text
Between-hospital and between-surgeon variation in thresholds for hip and knee replacement. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2022: May 31 Full text
We have updated our books on the statistical software Stata thanks to a generous donation by John Santamaria.
Stata is available for use on all SVHM PCs
A Gentle Introduction to Stata by 
An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers by 
A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics 4th ed. by 
An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, Revised Third Edition by 
Introduction to Time Series Using Stata Revised Edition by 
Bayesian Analysis with Stata by 
Multilevel and longitudinal Modeling Using Stata by We have access to new journal titles in 2024 via our various package collections
Cambridge University Press
64 new journal titles are included in this package. Some selected tiltes include:
Oxford University Press
Taylor and Francis Online
Science Direct
Wiley Online Library