Open Update is a bulletin produced by Library Services, St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
It presents a selection of open access articles relevant to staff at St Vincent's Health Australia.
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Quality Issues and Clinical Practice
Taking a value based commissioning approach to non-clinical and clinical support services. AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: March 25 Full text
Distribution and characteristics of bacteria on the hand during oropharyngeal swab collection: Which handwashing points are affected?
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 22 Full text
Barriers to mental health help-seeking among older adults with chronic diseases. AUS
Australian Psychologist:2024:59(2):154-56 Full text
A scoping review examining patient experience and what matters to people experiencing homelessness when seeking healthcare. SVHA
BMC Health Services Research:2024: April 20 Full text
Younger people with dementia registered to public mental health services in Victoria, Australia. AUS
Australian Health Review:2024: April 4 Full text
Patient-centred pathology reporting improves patient experience and understanding of disease in prostate cancer care. SVHA
BJUI Compass:2024: February 6 Full text
Occupational hazards and pregnancy in orthopaedics: female surgeons are at increased risk of infertility and pregnancy complications. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: April 8 Full text
Factors impacting nursing assistants to accept a delegation in the acute care settings: A mixed method study. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: March 31 Full text
Evaluation of different screening tools for detection of malnutrition in hospitalised patients.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: April 17 Full text
2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 16 Full text
Caffeine consumption and withdrawal among patients in the intensive care unit. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2024:37(3):436-40 Full text
Palliative Care
Should voluntary assisted dying in Victoria be extended to encompass people with dementia? SVHA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 3 Full text
Call to end shackling of hospitalised palliative prisoner patients. SVHA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: February 29 Full text
Primary care usage at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study of cancer patients using linked primary and hospital care data. SVHA
Supportive Care in Cancer:2024: April 8 Full text
Emergency Care
Review article: Patients who leave before care is completed: What does the legal duty to warn mean for emergency department clinicians? AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 16 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
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: March 31 Full text
Short waits, happy patients and expert care, moving basic musculoskeletal care from the emergency department to a physiotherapist-led diversion pathway. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 15 Full text
Hospitalisations and emergency department presentations by older individuals accessing long-term aged care in Australia. AUS
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
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: April 3 Full text
Refining ambulance clinical response models: The impact on ambulance response and emergency department presentations. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 1 Full text
Supporting equitable care of patients transferred from police watch-houses to the emergency department: A qualitative study of the perspectives of emergency doctors. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: April 22 Full text
Neurology
Delirium and incident dementia in hospital patients in New South Wales, Australia: retrospective cohort study. AUS
BMJ:2024:384:e077634 Full text
Multisensory hallucinations and other unusual sensory experiences in the context of migraine: a systematic review. SVHA
Journal of Neurology:2024: January 18 Full text
Effectiveness of seizure dogs for people with severe refractory epilepsy: results From the EPISODE Study.
Neurology:2024:102(6): e209178 Full text
Aged Care
Community based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people: systematic review and network meta-analysis.
BMJ:2024;384:e077764 Full text
Association between vision impairment and increased prevalence of falls in older US adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2024: March 21 Full text
Medication Issues
The increasing costs of medicines and their implications for patients, physicians and the health system. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: April 4 Full text
Has the rescheduling of modified-release paracetamol in Australia affected the frequency of overdoses? AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: March 26 Full text
Oral corticosteroid stewardship: key insights from the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: April 15 Full text
Epidemiology and clinical significance of carbapenemases in Australia: a narrative review. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: April 8 Full text
Glycaemic outcomes in hospital with IDegAsp versus BIAsp30 premixed insulins. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: April 5 Full text
Immunomodulatory drugs in sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Anaesthesia:2024: March 24 Full text
Concomitant use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors with oral anticoagulants and risk of major bleeding.
JAMA Network Open:2024: March 22 Full text
Artificial Intelligence
Quality and safety of artificial intelligence generated health information.
BMJ:2024;384:q596 Full text
Deep learning to detect left ventricular structural abnormalities in chest X-rays.
European Heart Journal:2024: March 20 Full text
