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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update April 1 2024

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

The Australian Health Care Homes trial: quality of care and patient outcomes. A propensity score-matched cohort study. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: March 21 Full text

The impact of tightened prescribing restrictions for PBS-subsidised opioid medicines and the introduction of half-pack sizes, Australia, 2020–21: an interrupted time series analysis. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: March 24
Full text

Implementing a ward-level intervention to improve nursing handover communication with a focus on bedside handover—A qualitative study. AUS OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 25
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Distribution and characteristics of bacteria on the hand during oropharyngeal swab collection: Which handwashing points are affected? OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 22 Full text

Pragmatic implementation of comprehensive dementia care management: The Cedars-Sinai C.A.R.E.S. Program preliminary data.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2024: March 25
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Risk of dementia during antihypertensive drug therapy in the elderly.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2024:83(13):1194-1203
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Immunomodulatory drugs in sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. OA
Anaesthesia:2024: March 24
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Community based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people: systematic review and network meta-analysis. OA
BMJ:2024;384:e077764
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Association between vision impairment and increased prevalence of falls in older US adults. OA
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2024: March 21 Full text

Quality and safety of artificial intelligence generated health information. OA
BMJ:2024;384:q596
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Deep learning to detect left ventricular structural abnormalities in chest X-rays. OA
European Heart Journal:2024: March 20
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Effect of exercise training on prognosis in community-acquired pneumonia: a randomised controlled trial. OA
Journal of Infectious Diseases:2024: March 18
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The effect of bariatric surgery on the expression of gastrointestinal taste receptors: A systematic review. STV OA
Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders:2024: January 11 Full text

Effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation improves pain intensity, disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome: a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2024: March 21
Full text

Impact of congenital heart disease on personality disorders in adulthood. 
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2024: January 24
Full text

Open Access Book on Recovery From COVID-19

Enabling and Optimising Recovery from COVID-19 A handbook for health professionals and other caregivers of people with Long COVID is an online, open access book published by Deakin University, with contributors across Australia. Content is being added over time.

The book includes 'Personas' - detailed descriptions of a person and their experience with a specific health condition (in this case, Long COVID).

A new chapter Improving the participation gap: Physiotherapy for people experiencing Long COVID includes SVHM authors

Cambridge University Press 2024 Deal for SVHM authors

The Library has entered into an agreement with Cambridge University Press for 2024. This provides access to 79 journals titles, In adition, any SVHM author who publishes open access in a Cambridge University Press journal in 2024 will have the articles processing fees waived. The SVHM author must be the corresponding author for the article. Please ask Library staff for details on terms and conditions.

Keep up tp date with the Library and Open Access publishing here:

Open Access Publishing

New Journals for 2025

We have access to new journal titles in 2024 via our various package collections

Cambridge University Press

64 new journal titles are included in this package. Some selected tiltes include:

Oxford University Press

Taylor and Francis Online

Wiley Online Library