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
Evolution of the health workforce: lessons from the past for the future. AUS
Australian Health Review:2025: September 8 Full text
The impact of interim care plans for direct inpatient admissions on Emergency Department length of stay: a retrospective single-site matched-cohort study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: September 4 Full text
Twenty-eight days later: emergency diagnoses associated with increased risk of readmission, a retrospective observational study of older adults. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: September 5 Full text
Did not wait patients: low-risk for admission and deterioration. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: September 4 Full text
Melatonin use in the ICU: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Critical Care Medicine:2025:53(9): e1714-e1724 Full text
Effect of lateral versus supine positioning on hypoxaemia in sedated adults: multicentre randomised controlled trial. OA
BMJ:2025: August 19 Full text
Shaping a knowable event or embracing a mysterious journey: A mixed methods study on palliative care clinician views on voluntary assisted dying. AUS OA
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: September 3 Full text
Timing of elective endoscopic procedures in patients with recent SARS-CoV-2 infection. STV
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology:2025: September 2 Full text
Impact of dementia on outcomes in older patients with COVID-19: A nationwide inpatient sample analysis. OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: September 8 Full text
The electrocardiogram reimagined: AI-ECG as a prognostic beacon for valvular heart disease. OA
European Heart Journal:2025: September 5 Full text
Are adults with chronic pain more likely to develop hypertension than adults without chronic pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis. OA
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2025:153(3):685-96 Full text
Biparametric vs multiparametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis: The PRIME Diagnostic Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2025: September 10 Full text
The role of reaction time training in enhancing balance and fall prevention: a systematic review.
Physical Therapy Reviews:2025: September 6 Full text
Subjective smell- and taste loss in diabetes—a questionnaire-based study on 47 011 individuals with diabetes and matched controls. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 8 Full text
Efficacy and safety of anrikefon in patients with pruritus undergoing haemodialysis: multicentre, double blind, randomised placebo controlled phase 3 trial. OA
BMJ:2025: August 19 Full text
Cardiovascular risk reduction with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is proportional to HbA1c lowering in type 2 diabetes: An updated meta-regression analysis incorporating FLOW and SOUL trials. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 9 Full text
Lower risk of cardiovascular events in patients initiated on semaglutide 2.4 mg in the real-world: Results from the SCORE study (Semaglutide Effects on Cardiovascular Outcomes in People with Overweight or Obesity in the Real World) OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 9 Full text
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