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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Surgery
Surgical clinical trial activity in Australia, 2010–20, by specialty: analysis of trial registration data. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: December 10 Full text
The long-term impacts of opioid use before and after joint arthroplasty: matched cohort analysis of New Zealand linked register data. STV
Family Practice:2024: December 5 Full text
Virtual Care
Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024:221(S11):S37-48 Full text
The Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a hybrid virtual model of care designed to improve health access and outcomes in rural and remote communities. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024:221(S11):S3-7 Full text
Inclusive Care
The experiences of trans (binary and non-binary) people accessing emergency department care in Australia: A grounded theory study. AUS
Australasian Emergency Care:2024: December 4 Full text
Nursing Care
Navigating ‘deterioration in mental state’ – from recognition to response in general hospitals to satisfy ‘National Standards’: a discussion paper. AUS
Contemporary Nurse:2024: December 11 Full text
Nurses' perspectives on the use of prophylactic dressings to prevent pressure injury: a qualitative study. STV
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: December 9 Full text
COVID-19
Interventions for the management of long covid (post-covid condition): living systematic review.
BMJ:2024:387:e081318 Full text
Clinical phenotype of COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis in Victoria, 2021–22: a cross-sectional study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: December 10 Full text
Preventive Care
Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies.
BMJ:2024:387:e078386 Full text
Total-Body PET/CT: Pros and Cons. STV
Seminars in Nuclear Medicine:2025:55(1):11-20 Full text
