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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update February 27 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

Optimising access to healthcare for patients experiencing homelessness in hospital emergency departments. STV
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health:2023: January 30 Full text

Enhancing end of life care on general internal medical wards: the 3 Wishes Project.
BMC Palliative Care:2023: February 14 Full text

Managers' experiences of providing end-of-life care under the Home Care Package Program. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2023: February 21 Full text

Grace under pressure: Mental health nurses' stories of resilience in practice. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2023: February 21 Full text

‘They don't really know why they're here’ mental health professionals' perspectives of consumer representatives. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2023: February 2 Full text

Mental health service contact following release from prison or hospital discharge in those with psychosis. AUS
Frontiers in Psychiatry:2022: December 15 Full text

What is “opioid stewardship”? An overview of current definitions and proposal for a universally acceptable definition.
Journal of Pain Research:2023: February 10 Full text

Opportunity or inequity? The paradox of open educational resources for continuing professional development in nursing.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2023: February 21 Full text

Rethinking menopausal hormone therapy: for whom, what, when, and how long?
Circulation:2023: 147(7):597–610 Full text

Sepsis triggers and tools to support early identification in healthcare settings: an integrative review. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: February 20 Full text

Influenza vaccination as a prevention therapy for stable coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.
American Journal of Medicine:2023: February 19 Full text

Respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine in older adults.
New England Journal of Medicine:2023: February 16 Full text

A systematic review of frailty scores used in heart failure patients. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation: 2023: February 18 Full text

High-intensity interval training in cardiac rehabilitation (HIIT or MISS UK): A multi-centre randomised controlled trial.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2023: February 8 Full text

Benefits and risks of ventilator hyperinflation in mechanically ventilated intensive care patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: February 21 Full text

Safety and outcome of revascularization treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke and COVID-19: The Global COVID-19 Stroke.
Neurology:2023:100(7):e739 Full text

Sniffing for Parkinson's disease.
American Journal of Medicine:2023: February 3 Full text

Australia’s Disability Strategy 2012-2031

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has launched a website on reporting regarding the Australia's Disability Strategy 2021-2031

Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 is a plan to make life better for people with disability. 

This website reports on how the Strategy is going. It provides data to help keep track of:

  • what is happening for people with disability
  • what changes over time

There are 7 categories of measures, including Health and Wellbeing where data is being collected and tracked relevant to health services and hospitals