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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Short waits, happy patients and expert care, moving basic musculoskeletal care from the emergency department to a physiotherapist-led diversion pathway. AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 15 Full text
2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 16 Full text
Evaluation of different screening tools for detection of malnutrition in hospitalised patients. OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: April 17 Full text
Primary care usage at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study of cancer patients using linked primary and hospital care data. STV OA
Supportive Care in Cancer:2024: April 8 Full text
Patient, surgical and hospital factors predicting actual first-day mobilisation after hip fracture surgery: An observational cohort study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: April 14 Full text
The introduction of a sound reduction bundle in the intensive care unit and its impact on sound levels and patients. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2024: April 11 Full text
Caffeine consumption and withdrawal among patients in the intensive care unit. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2024:37(3):436-40 Full text
Learning from our unit’s first exorcism.
Intensive Care Medicine:2024:50:610-11 Full text
Haemodynamic changes during prone versus supine position in patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2024: March 31 Full text
Do pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve outcomes in patients with COPD posthospital discharge for exacerbation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Thorax:2024:79(5):438-47 Full text
Non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels from childhood to adulthood and cardiovascular disease events.
JAMA:2024: April 12 Full text
Oral corticosteroid stewardship: key insights from the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry. AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: April 15 Full text
Coexisting atrial fibrillation and cancer: time trends and associations with mortality in a nationwide Dutch study. OA
European Heart Journal:2024: April 15 Full text
Semaglutide in patients with obesity-related heart failure and type 2 diabetes.
New England Journal of Medicine:2024: March 28 Full text
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy VOL 1 Upper and Lower Limbs by 
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy VOL 2 Thorax and Abdomen by This issues paper from the Australian government Department of Health and Aged Care proposes deveral options for reform to enable health professionals to work to their full scope of practice and improve primary care. It proposes 8 policy reform options across 3 key themes – Workforce design, development and planning; Legislation and regulation; Funding and payment policy.
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.
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