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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.
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

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

New Journals for 2025

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