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.
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Addressing the ‘python’ crisis affecting medical specialist training programmes: organisational frameworks and interdisciplinary insights. AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: August 23 Full text
Dedicated speech pathology staffing and hospital length of stay amongst mechanically ventilated ICU survivors: exploring value beyond clinical outcomes. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2025: August 26 Full text
Animal-assisted services in Australia and New Zealand intensive care units: A cross-sectional survey. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2025:38(5):101272 Full text
Findings of a pilot randomised controlled trial of an early psychiatric assessment, referral, and intervention study for intensive care patients. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2025: August 11 Full text
Interferon-α nasal spray prophylaxis reduces COVID-19 in cancer patients: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. OA
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2025: August 28 Full text
Clopidogrel versus aspirin for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.
Lancet:2025: August 31 Full text
Novel psychoactive substances in Australian emergency departments: implications for public health practice from multi-centre prospective toxicosurveillance across five states, 2022–2023. AUS OA
International Journal of Drug Policy:2025: August 22 Full text
Cancer control measures have prevented 230,000 deaths in Australia since the mid-1980s. AUS OA
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health:2025: August 18 Full text
Longitudinal patterns of antidepressant and benzodiazepine use associated with injurious falls in older adults with depression: a retrospective cohort study. OA
BMC Medicine:2025: August 20 Full text
Kidney function and risk of heart failure in older adults: findings from a prospective cohort study.
Heart:2025: August 22 Full text
Cool facial airflow hastens exertion recovery in chronic breathlessness: randomised crossover trial of different fan airflow speeds. OA
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care:2025:15:633-641 Full text
Maintenance of treatment gains from psychological treatments for chronic pain: what (little) we know, and the urgent need to extend it.
Pain:2025:166(9):1969-73 Full text
Smoking affects gut immune system of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases by modulating metabolomic profiles and mucosal microbiota.
Gut:2025: August 25 Full text
GLP-1 receptor agonists and sight-threatening ophthalmic complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: August 11 Full text
Semaglutide or tirzepatide and optic nerve and visual pathway disorders in type 2 diabetes. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: August 11 Full text
