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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update January 23 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.
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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

Social isolation and loneliness as medical issues.
New England Journal of Medicine:2023: January 14 Full text

Telemental health for the homeless population: lessons learned when leveraging care.
Current Psychiatry Reports:2023:25:1-6 Full text

Supporting vulnerable people during challenging transitions: a systematic review of critical time intervention.
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Research:2023:50:100-13 Full text

Risk factors associated with 30-day unplanned hospital readmission for patients with mental illness. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2023:32(1):30-53 Full text

Early prediction of hospital admission of emergency department patients. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia: January 12 Full text

Introduction of an emergency medicine pharmacist-led sepsis alert response system in the emergency department: a cohort study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia: January 12 Full text

Direct ophthalmoscopy in the evaluation of emergency department patients with headache: Time to rethink?
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: January 11 Full text

Multicomponent intervention for frail and pre-frail older adults with acute cardiovascular conditions: The TARGET-EFT randomized clinical trial.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2023: January 16 Full text

Same day discharge for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a prospective cohort study documenting an Australian approach. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: January 13 Full text

SMART choice (knee) tool: a patient-focused predictive model to predict improvement in health-related quality of life after total knee arthroplasty. STV
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: January 13 Full text

Impact of Early COVID-19 waves on cardiac rehabilitation delivery in Australia: a national survey. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2022: January 14 Full text

Empagliflozin in patients with chronic kidney disease.
New England Journal of Medicine:2023: January 12 Full text

Alcohol intake as a risk factor for acute stroke: The INTERSTROKE Study.
Neurology:2023:100(2):e142 Full text

Potential role of volatile organic compound breath testing in the Australasian colorectal cancer pathway.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: January 11 Full text

Your mother was right… You should stand up straight.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: December 22 Full text

Preprints: a game changer in scientific publications?
European Heart Journal:2023:44(3):171-73 Full text

Long COVID in Australia

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has issued a review of the literature regarding Long COVID in Australia

Key findings include that around 5–10% of COVID-19 cases in Australia reported symptoms persisting for more than 3 months, and also that as of September 2022, most long COVID research has been conducted outside of Australia, often using pre-Omicron data