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
Modelled economic evaluation of a virtual emergency department in Victoria. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: September 27 Full text
Initial experience of a Priority Primary Care Centre in metropolitan Melbourne. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: October 2 Full text
The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce.
Australian Health Review:2023: September 25 Full text
Four ideas for meaningful inclusion of consumers in mental health research. AUS
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2023: September 29 Full text
Machine learning in clinical practice: Evaluation of an artificial intelligence tool after implementation. STV
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2023: September 28 Full text
Artificial intelligence’s leap into Emergency Medicine: the promise and pitfalls of ChatGPT: A look into what ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence applications mean for the future of the field.
Annals of Emergency Medicine:2023:82(4):A13-16 Full text
An ethnographic study exploring person-centred nutrition care in rehabilitation units. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2023: September 30 Full text
Effect of bougie use on first-attempt success in tracheal intubations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Annals of Emergency Medicine:2023: September 19 Full text
Chest pain symptoms during myocardial infarction in patients with and without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Heart:2023:109(20):1516-24 Full text
Association between recently raised anticholinergic burden and risk of acute cardiovascular events: nationwide case-case-time-control study.
BMJ:2023: September 27 Full text
Antithrombotic therapy for primary and secondary prevention of ischemic stroke: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2023:82(15):1538-57 Full text
Relationship of daily step counts to all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2023:82(15):1483-94 Full text
Outcomes in patients with poststroke seizures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
JAMA Neurology:2023: September 16 Full text
The J-shape association between total bilirubin and stroke in older patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a multicenter study.
Journal of Nutrition, Health and Ageing:2023: August 26 Full text
Loneliness and risk of Parkinson Disease.
JAMA Neurology:2023: October 2 Full text
The future of cystic fibrosis treatment: from disease mechanisms to novel therapeutic approaches.
Lancet:2023:402(10408):1185-98 Full text
Undiagnosed coeliac disease identified by active case finding in first degree relatives of people with coeliac disease in Australia: a prospective observational study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2023: September 16 Full text
Potassium level changes in chronic kidney disease patients following balanced crystalloid administration in the emergency department.
Medicine:2023: September 29 Full text
Daily vibrotactile stimulation exhibits equal or greater spasticity relief than botulinum toxin in stroke.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:2023:104(10):1565-72 Full text
Blood-based tests for multicancer early detection (PATHFINDER): a prospective cohort study.
Lancet:2023:402(1049):1251-60 Full text
The MyHospitals section of the AIHW website contains a lot of data regarding hospitals, the services they provide and staffing.
The Hospital Workforce report provides a snapshot of public hospital staffing:
In 2021–22:
These staff numbers do not include visiting medical officers in public hospitals and most medical officers who provide services in private hospitals.
A multitude of data on public hospitals updated to 2021-2022 is also available as Excel file
Handbook of Lumbar Spine and Lower Extremity Examination by 
