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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update December 18 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

Evaluation of a virtual ward model of care and readmission characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic within an Australian tertiary hospital. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: December 8 Full text

What types of clinical interventions do pharmacists carry out in hospitals for patients receiving palliative care?
Progress in Palliative Care:2023: December 9 Full text

Implications of voluntary assisted dying for advance care planning. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2023: December 12 Full text

Preventing controlled substance diversion in perioperative settings: a narrative review.
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia:2023:70:1989-2001 Full text

The impact of electric scooters in Melbourne: data from a major trauma service. AUS OA
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: December 12 Full text

The burden and prognostic significance of suspected sepsis in the prehospital setting: A state-wide population-based cohort study. AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: December 11 Full text

Hospital-acquired complications in critically ill patients. STV OA
Critical Care and Resuscitation:2023:23(3):285-91 Full text

Testing feasibility of relevant outcome measures in an inpatient setting to demonstrate the value of occupational therapy. STV OA
Australian Journal of Occupational therapy:2023: December 6 Full text

Can admission Braden skin score predict delirium in older adults in the intensive care unit? Results from a multicenter study.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2023: December 10 Full text

The long-term impacts of opioid use before and after joint arthroplasty: matched cohort analysis of New Zealand linked register data. STV OA
Family Practice:2023: December 5 Full text

Dementia research in 2023: the year of anti-amyloid immunotherapy.
Lancet Neurology:2024:23(1):13-15 Full text

The gut microbiome across the cardiovascular risk spectrum.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2023: December 7 Full text

Neutrophil counts and cardiovascular disease.
European Heart Journal:2023:44(47):4953-64 Full text

Is BCG vaccination of possums the solution to the Buruli ulcer epidemic in south-eastern Australia? AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2023:219(11):520-22 Full text