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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
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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

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