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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update April 17 2023

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.
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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

Are we deskilling or reskilling our hospital ward clinicians? AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: April 5 Full text

Antecedents to and outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrests in Australian hospitals with mature medical emergency teams: A multicentre prospective observational study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: April 12 Full text

Effect of a coaching intervention to improve cardiologist communication: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2023: April 10 Full text

Low prevalence of communication between intensive care unit medical staff and general practitioners: A single-centre retrospective study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: April 11 Full text

State-wide prevalence of pressure injury in intensive care versus acute general patients: A five-year analysis. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2023: March 17 Full text

Patients’ perceptions and knowledge of source isolation for multi-resistant organisms in an Australian metropolitan hospital: A bedside interview with questionnaire study. AUS
Patient Experience Journal:2023:9(3):126-35 Full text

Changes in hospitalisation rates in older people before and after moving to a retirement village. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2023: April 10 Full text

Effectiveness of respiratory rehabilitation in patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2023: March 21 Full text

A review of the utility of prognostic tools in predicting 6-month mortality in cancer patients, conducted in the context of Voluntary Assisted Dying. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: April 8 Full text

The prevalence and types of advance care planning use in patients with advanced cancer: A retrospective single-centre perspective, Australia. AUS
Progress in Palliative Care:2023:31(2):80-88 Full text

Massage therapy for hospitalized patients receiving palliative care: a randomized clinical trial.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2023:65(5):428-41 Full text

Indigenous experiences and underutilisation of disability support services in Australia: a qualitative meta-synthesis. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2023: April 8 Full text

Home dialysis in older adults: challenges and solutions.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2023:16(3):422-31 Full text

Heterogeneity in blood pressure response to 4 antihypertensive drugs: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2023: April 11 Full text

Heart failure following anti-inflammatory medications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2023:81(5):1459-70 Full text

Association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analyses.
JAMA Network Open:2023: March 31 Full text

Shortages of antiseizure medications in Australia and the association with patient switching, and adherence in a community setting. STV
Epilepsy and Behvior:2023: March 18 Full text

Personalised virtual brain models in epilepsy.
Lancet Neurology:2023:22(5):443-54 Full text

Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence.
Nature:2023: April 12 Full text