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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The disappointing impact of interventions to prevent hospital readmissions.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2023: May 1 Full text
Outcomes of postoperative overnight high-acuity care in medium-risk patients undergoing elective and unplanned noncardiac surgery.
JAMA Surgery:2023: May 3 Full text
Missed opportunities: saving lives through organ donation following voluntary assisted dying. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: May 4 Full text
A review of the utility of prognostic tools in predicting 6-month mortality in cancer patients, conducted in the context of voluntary assisted dying. STV
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: May 8 Full text
Diagnosing the acute abdomen during a global contrast shortage: a single centre experience. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2023: May 3 Full text
Analysis of exhaled breath to identify critically ill patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Anaesthesia:2023:78:684-87 Full text
A randomised controlled trial of a nutrition and a decision support intervention to enable partnerships with families of critically ill patients. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2023: May 9 Full text
Complications associated with the use of peripherally inserted central catheters and midline catheters in COVID-19 patients: an observational prospective study.
American Journal of Infection Control:2023: May 7 Full text
Impact of increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19–related lockdowns on admissions with liver disease, gastrointestinal bleeding and pancreatitis in Melbourne, Victoria. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2023: May 3 Full text
Digital health interventions in chronic kidney disease: levelling the playing field?
Clinical Kidney Disease:2023:16(5):763-67 Full text
eHealth for maintenance cardiovascular rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2023: May 8 Full text
Rheumatoid arthritis and risk of parkinson disease in Korea.
JAMA Neurology:2023: May 1 Full text
Pulsed field ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation: PULSED AF Pivotal Trial.
Cicrulation:2023:147(19):1422-32 Full text
Efficacy and safety of e-cigarette use for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
American Journal of Medicine:2023: May 5 Full text
Fracture risk reduction and safety by osteoporosis treatment compared with placebo or active comparator in postmenopausal women: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis of randomised clinical trials.
BMJ:2023:2023:381:e068033 Full text
Generative artificial intelligence: can ChatGPT write a quality abstract?
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: May 4 Full text
Health Open Research is an open access publishing platform for researchers working in health, medical and social care research offering rapid publication of scholarly articles and other research outputs (e.g. posters, slides and documents). Open peer review occurs post publication.
Open Health Research is run by the publisher Taylor & Francis in conjunction with the UK Association of Medical Research Charities
While Article Processing Charges (APCs) will normally apply, standrad article processing fees will be waived until December 31 2023.
Professor Ivo Vellar's keen interest in the history of St Vincent's Hospital resulted in several publications on various aspects our history.
Copies of these books are available for loan from the Carl de Gruchy Library.
See the list from our catalogue
