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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Hospital Services
Delivery of Allied Health interventions using telehealth modalities: a rapid systematic review of randomized controlled trials. SVHA
Healthcare:2024: June 18 Full text
Hospital and out-of-hospital services provided by public geriatric medicine departments in Australia and New Zealand. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: May 26 Full text
Reduced numbers of elective joint replacement procedures in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2022: a registry data analysis study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: May 27 Full text
Virtual Toxicology Service decreases the average length of stay of poisoned patients and saves bed days. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: June 4 Full text
Surgery
Association between multimorbidity and postoperative mortality in patients undergoing major surgery: a prospective study in 29 countries across Europe.
Anaesthesia:2024: May 27 Full text
Antiplatelet therapy after coronary artery bypass surgery: five year follow-up of randomised DACAB trial.
BMJ:2024;385:e075707 Full text
Do patients with osteoarthritis lose weight prior to elective joint replacement? AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: June 10 Full text
Aged Care / Geriatrics
Dietitians' perceptions of employment models used in Australian residential aged care facilities. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: May 30 Full text
Diabetes in residential aged care: pharmacological management and concordance with clinical guidelines. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: July 3 Full text
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: July 1 Full text
Managing falls onsite in residential aged care homes reduced hospitalisation: Mixed methods results from the Falls Outreach and Residential Mobile Assessment Team (FORMAT) pilot study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: June 26 Full text
Cardiovascular Diseases
Colchicine in patients with acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (CHANCE-3): multicentre, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial.
BMJ: 2024:385:e079061 Full text
Imaging in acute ischaemic stroke: assessing findings in light of evolving therapies.
British Journal of Radiology:2024:97(1158):1078-87 Full text
Atrial fibrillation: age at diagnosis, incident cardiovascular events, and mortality.
European Heart Journal:2024:45(24):2119-29 Full text
General physicians' perspectives on SGLT2 inhibitors for heart failure. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: July3 Full text
New horizons in peripheral artery disease.
Age and Ageing:2024:53(6):afae114 Full text
Diabetes
Modifiable factors to prevent severe hypoglycaemic and diabetic ketoacidosis presentations in people with type 1 diabetes. SVHA
Diabetic Medicine:2024: June 24 Full text
Impact of diabetes in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery within 48 hours.
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2024: May 28 Full text
Intensive Care
Ultrasound-derived rates of muscle wasting in the intensive care unit and in the post-intensive care ward for patients with critical illness: Post hoc analysis of an international, multicentre randomised controlled trial of early rehabilitation. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2024: June 4 Full text
How a critical care environment influences nurses’ health and working capacity: a scoping review. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: June 20 Full text
Cancer
Shifting views on cancer pain management: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2024: June 4 Full text
It's time to consider screening for anal cancer in high risk populations. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: June 14 Full text
Mental Health Care
Nurses' perspectives on the proposed seclusion elimination in mental health wards. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: June 17 Full text
Patients in isolation, their physical, environmental and mental health: An exploratory study. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: June 17 Full text
