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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update April 8 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

Taking a value based commissioning approach to non-clinical and clinical support services. AUS OA
Australian Health Review:2024: March 25 Full text

Should voluntary assisted dying in Victoria be extended to encompass people with dementia? STV OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 3 Full text

Call to end shackling of hospitalised palliative prisoner patients. STV OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: February 29 Full text

Using an under-utilised rural hospital to reduce surgical waiting lists. AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: March 25
Full text

Hospitalisations and emergency department presentations by older individuals accessing long-term aged care in Australia. AUS OA
Australian Health Review:2024: March 28 Full text

Ambient maximum daily temperature and mental health-related presentations to a western Sydney emergency department, 2015–2019: analysis of hospital and meteorological data. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 3 Full text

Refining ambulance clinical response models: The impact on ambulance response and emergency department presentations. AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 1 Full text

Evaluation of a pathway to address take own leave events for First Nations peoples presenting for emergency care: The Deadly RED project. AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: March 31 Full text

Effect of a person-centred goals-of-care form and clinical communication training on shared decision-making and outcomes in an acute hospital: a prospective longitudinal interventional study. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: March 23
Full text

Has the rescheduling of modified-release paracetamol in Australia affected the frequency of overdoses? AUS OA
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: March 26
Full text

Delirium and incident dementia in hospital patients in New South Wales, Australia: retrospective cohort study. AUS OA
BMJ:2024:384:e077634 Full text

Factors impacting nursing assistants to accept a delegation in the acute care settings: A mixed method study. AUS OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 31 Full text

Severe mental illness: cardiovascular risk assessment and management.
European Heart Journal:2024:45(12):987-97
Full text

Cardiac implantable electronic devices and bloodstream infections: management and outcomes.
European Heart Journal:2024: March 28 Full text

Efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin in patients with acute heart failure.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2024:83(14):1295-1306
Full text

Concomitant use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors with oral anticoagulants and risk of major bleeding. OA
JAMA Network Open:2024: March 22
Full text

Multisensory hallucinations and other unusual sensory experiences in the context of migraine: a systematic review. STV OA
Journal of Neurology:2024: January 18 Full text

The effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions on reducing pain in patients undergoing bone marrow aspiration and biopsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 28 Full text

Metformin boosts anti-tumor immunity and improves prognosis in upfront resected pancreatic cancer: an observational study.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2024: March 26
Full text

Safety and feasibility of instituting a robotic pancreas program in the Australian setting: a case series and narrative review. AUS OA
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: March 26
Full text

Decibels in the operating theatre: a study of noise levels during surgical procedures. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: March 30 Full text

Stroke prevention strategies for cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: March 26 Full text

Use of kidney failure risk equation as a tool to evaluate referrals from primary care to specialist nephrology care. AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: March 26 Full text

Reporting use of AI in research and scholarly publication—JAMA Network Guidance.
JAMA:2024: March 7
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