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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update August 7 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

The digital hospital: a scoping review of how technology is transforming cardiopulmonary care. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2023: July 31 Full text

Clinical governance implications of a Victorian coronial finding regarding contrast-related anaphylaxis for health services and private providers of radiology services. AUS
Australian Health Review:2023: July 24 Full text

Voluntary assisted dying/euthanasia: will this have an impact on cancer care in future years? STV
Current Treatment Options in Oncology:2023: August 3 Full text

Referral criteria to specialist palliative care for people with advanced chronic kidney disease: a systematic review. STV
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2023: July 26 Full text

Establishment of the first Australian public and health-professional palliative care advice service: exploring caller needs and gaps in care. STV
Australian Health Review:2023: July 30 Full text

Pathogenesis and management of abdominal aortic aneurysm. AUS
European Heart Journal:2023: June 30 Full text

What interventions keep older people out of nursing homes? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2023: August 1 Full text

Vagus nerve stimulation paired with upper-limb rehabilitation after stroke: 2- and 3-year follow-up from the pilot study.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:2023:108(4):1180-87 Full text

The risk of sexual transmission of HIV in individuals with low-level HIV viraemia: a systematic review.
Lancet:2023:402(10400):464-71 Full text

Impact of balance on the energetic cost of walking and gait speed.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2023: August 2 Full text

AI and Medical Education — A 21st-Century Pandora’s Box.
New England Journal of Medicine:2023: August 3 Full text

New Print Books

NSQHS Standards – Live Literature Searches

NSQHS Standards Live Literature Searches

As we approach accrediation, a reminder that a great ressource created by Australian health librarians is available to easily conduct literature searches on PubMed on selected NSQHS criteria.

Searches topics incuded are:

  • Partnering with Consumers - Health Literacy, Partnering with consumers, Shared decision making
  • Healthcare Associated Infections - Infection prevention, Wound management
  • Medication Safety - Medication safety
  • Comprehensive Care-  Delirium,  Falls prevention,  Pressure injuries, Malnutrition
  • Communicating for Safety - Clinical handover
  • Blood Management
  • Acute Deterioration

Note that if you first open the SVHM custom version of PubMed, you will be presented with links to full text where available