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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Workforce Matters
Assessing organizational culture within Australian healthcare settings: implications for training and accreditation. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: January 19 Full text
Medical students: a potentially sustainable solution for our workforce crisis and future reforms in health care. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2023: December 26 Full text
Nurse practitioners' use of diagnostic imaging: A scoping review. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024:33(2):432-53 Full text
Workforce resilience supporting staff in managing stress: A coherent breathing intervention for the long-term care workforce.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2023: December 29 Full text
Quality Issues and Clinical Practice
Effect of chair placement on physicians’ behavior and patients’ satisfaction: randomized deception trial.
BMJ:2023: December 15 Full text
A system for developing reasonable adjustments to the application of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards for adult patients with intellectual disability in Australian hospital settings. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: January 22 Full text
Quantifying hospital environmental ventilation using carbon dioxide monitoring – a multicentre study.
Anaesthesia:2023: December 7 Full text
Reducing the carbon footprint of general anaesthesia: a comparison of total intravenous anaesthesia vs. a mixed anaesthetic strategy in 47,157 adult patients.
Anaesthesia:2024: January 11 Full text
Feasibility and acceptability of facilitated advance care planning in outpatient clinics: A qualitative study of health-care professionals experience. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: January 23 Full text
Substance use during hospitalisation requiring an urgent clinical response: an opportunity for intervention. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: January 23 Full text
Too much versus too little: looking for the “sweet spot” in optimal use of diagnostic investigations.
Medical Journal of Australia:2023: December 26 Full text
The Alfred Health post-COVID-19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2023: December 21 Full text
Aged and Residential Care
Awaiting the verdict: statins and the road ahead for primary prevention in older adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2024: January 13 Full text
Monitoring falls in residential aged care facilities: agreement between falls incident reports and progress notes. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024:January 13 Full text
Exercise for falls prevention in aged care: systematic review and trial endpoint meta-analyses.
Age and Ageing:2023:52(12): afad217 Full text
‘My pet can't come with me’: Pets as a barrier against moving into supported accommodation. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: January 7 Full text
Food, nutrition and the dining experience in aged care settings: Findings of a nationwide survey. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2023: December 31 Full text
Palliative and End-Of-Life Care
Patients' perception of the benefits of palliative systemic therapy for advanced cancer. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: January 11 Full text
Quality versus quantity of life: beyond the dichotomy.
Palliative Medicine Reports:2024:4(1) Full text
What care do people with dementia receive at the end of life? Lessons from a retrospective clinical audit of deaths in hospital and other settings. AUS
BMC Geriatrics:2024: January 9 Full text
