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
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Deteriorating patients in Australian hospitals – current issues and future opportunities. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2023: July 15 Full text
Exploring interdisciplinary communication pathways for escalating pre-medical emergency team deterioration: a mixed-methods study. AUS
Australian Health Review:2023: July 18 Full text
Implementation of an in-reach rehabilitation program can increase the rate of discharge home from acute hospital care. SVHA
Australian Health Review:2023: July 18 Full text
Reducing unnecessary diagnostic phlebotomy in intensive care: a prospective quality improvement intervention.
BMJ Quality and Safety:2023:32(8):485-94 Full text
Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
Nature:2023: July 18 Full text
ChatGPT in scientific writing: a cautionary tale.
American Journal of Medicine:2023:136(8):725-26 Full text
Discharge of postoperative patients with an opioid prescription is associated with increased persistent opioid use, healthcare expenditures and mortality: a retrospective cohort study.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2023: July 18 Full text
Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Lancet:2023:402(10398):304-12 Full text
‘It breaks a narrative of paramedics, that we’re lifesavers’: A qualitative study of health professionals’, bereaved family members’ and carers’ perceptions and experiences of palliative paramedicine. STV
Palliative Medicine:2023: July 14 Full text
Managing and preventing migraine in the Emergency Department: a review.
Annals of Emergency Medicine:2023: July 11 Full text
Psychosis in acute methamphetamine intoxication is usually self-limiting and can be managed in the emergency department: A retrospective series. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: July 17 Full text
What’s new in reducing the impact of tracheostomy on communication and swallowing in the ICU.
Intensive Care Medicine:2023:40:860-63 Full text
Oral antimicrobial therapy for cellulitis versus outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy: a single-centre audit of cellulitis outcomes.
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: July 18 Full text
Multidisciplinary approach to patients with heart failure and kidney disease: preliminary experience of an integrated cardiorenal unit.
Clinical Kidney Journal:2023: July 13 Full text
Current practice in the perioperative management of patients with diabetes mellitus: a narrative review.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2023:131(2):242-52 Full text
A selection of new systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library for July 2023:
Duplex ultrasound for surveillance of lower limb revascularisation
Tourniquet use for people with peripheral arterial disease undergoing major lower limb amputations
Vedolizumab for induction and maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease
First‐line diuretics versus other classes of antihypertensive drugs for hypertension
Pharmacological interventions for pruritus in adult palliative care patients
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:
Note that if you first open the SVHM custom version of PubMed, you will be presented with links to full text where available