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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update April 24 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

Prevalence and correlates of advance care planning among Australian hospital inpatients. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: April 18 Full text

Does advance care planning have a future? AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: April 18 Full text

Pre–medical emergency team activations – patient characteristics, outcomes and predictors of deterioration. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: April 17 Full text

Future-proofing the profession: physiotherapists’ perceptions of their current and emerging role.
Physiotherapy:2023:119:72-79 Full text

Diagnosis and management of prediabetes: a review.
JAMA:2023: April 11 Full text

Current practice in the perioperative management of patients with diabetes mellitus: a narrative review.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2023: April 13 Full text

Effect of palliative care decisions making on hospital service use at end-of-life in patients with malignant brain tumors: a retrospective study.
BMC Palliative Care:2023: April 10 Full text

Clinical and prognostic relevance of cardiac wasting in patients with advanced cancer.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2023:81(16):1569-86 Full text

Clinical variation in the early assessment and management of suspected community-acquired meningitis: a multicentre retrospective study. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: March 23 Full text

Approach to schizophrenia. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: April 18 Full text

To assess the effects of cross-education on strength and motor function in post stroke rehabilitation: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
Physiotherapy:2023:119:80-88 Full text

New Print Books

Mission has kindly donated to the Library five books in the First Knowledges series

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