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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Futile treatment – when is enough, enough? AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: February 1 Full text
The impact of COVID-19 on general surgical trainees' surgical exposure in Australia. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: January 30 Full text
Scope of practice regulation in medicine: balancing patient safety, access to care and professional autonomy. AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: February 1 Full text
Investigating allied health professionals’ attitudes, perceptions and acceptance of an electronic medical record using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: January 29 Full text
The feasibility and acceptability of a physician-led ICU follow-up service: a prospective cohort study. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2024:37(1):3-11 Full text
CarePlus: a model to address barriers to early palliative care in cancer. STV OA
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2024: January 24 Full text
Emergency department hospice care pathway associated with decreased ED and hospital length of stay. OA
American Journal of Emergency Medicine:2024:76:99-104 Full text
Assessing the reach and safety of an innovative urgent care service tailored to older adults. AUS OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024:January 24 Full text
Patient blood management guideline for adults with critical bleeding. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: January 28 Full text
Workforce perspectives of sustaining the utilisation of a harm reduction instrument in a mental health residential setting. STV OA
Healthcare:2024: January 22 Full text
Speech pathology assessment of dysphagia post endotracheal extubation: a service-model evaluation. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2024:37(1):144-50 Full text
Incidence of fit test failure during n95 respirator reuse and extended use.
JAMA Network Open:2024: January 26 Full text
Status epilepticus in the ICU.
Intensive Care Medicine:2024:50(1):1-16 Full text
Long-term neuropsychiatric, neurocognitive, and functional outcomes of patients receiving ECMO: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Neurology:2024: January 5 Full text
Promises and perils of consumer mobile technologies in cardiovascular care: JACC scientific statement.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2024:83(5):611-31 Full text
Improving hip fracture care: a five-year review of the early contributors to the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry. AUS OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: January 25 Full text
Skin antisepsis before surgical fixation of extremity fractures.
New England Journal of Medicine:2024:February 1 Full text
Polypharmacy is associated with slow gait speed and recurrent falls in older people with human immunodeficiency virus. OA
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2023: December 26 Full text
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Handbook of Interventional Radiologic Procedures by 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:
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