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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update July 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

Remote vital sign monitoring in admission avoidance hospital at home: a systematic review.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2024: June 20
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Patients' and caregivers' suggestions for improving assisted dying regulation: a qualitative study in Australia and Canada. AUS OA
Health Expectations:2024:27(3):e14107 Full text

Estimating potential palliative care needs for residential aged care: A population-based retrospective cohort study. AUS OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: June 24
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Mental health service use before first diagnosis of a psychotic disorder.
JAMA Psychiatry:2024: June 18
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Povidone iodine vs chlorhexidine gluconate in alcohol for preoperative skin antisepsis: a randomized clinical trial.
JAMA:2024: June 17
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Effectiveness, experience, and usability of low-technology augmentative and alternative communication in intensive care: A mixed-methods systematic review. OA
Australian Critical Care:2024: June 12 Full text

Low-dose corticosteroids for critically ill adults with severe pulmonary infections: a review.
JAMA:2024: June 12 Full text

Stress ulcer prophylaxis during invasive mechanical ventilation.
New England Journal of Medicine:2024: June 14 Full text

Cardiac shockwave therapy in addition to coronary bypass surgery improves myocardial function in ischaemic heart failure: the CAST-HF trial.
European Heart Journal:2024: June 20 Full text

Resistance is not futile: a systematic review of the benefits, mechanisms and safety of resistance training in people with heart failure. AUS OA
Heart Failure Reviews:2024: April 24
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Systematic hand-held echocardiography in patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome. OA
European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging:2024: June 11 Full text

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk estimates using the predicting risk of cardiovascular disease events equations.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2024: June 10
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Recurrent ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation while receiving oral anticoagulants.
JAMA Neurology:2024:June 24
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Estimated effectiveness of the BNT162b2 XBB vaccine against COVID-19.

JAMA Internal Medicine:2024: June 24
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an individualised, progressive walking and education intervention for the prevention of low back pain recurrence in Australia (WalkBack): a randomised controlled trial. AUS OA
Lancet:2024: June 19
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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.

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