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 Care
Barriers and enablers to nurse-initiated care in emergency departments: An embedded mixed methods survey study. AUS OA
Australasian Emergency Care:2024: November 4 Full text
Association of physical function with hospital readmissions among older adults: A systematic review. OA
Journal of Hospital Medicine:2024: November 4 Full text
A digitally enabled health workforce for Australia. AUS OA
Australian Health Review:2024: November 18 Full text
Intensive Care
A window of opportunity for ICU end-of-life care—a retrospective multicenter cohort study. OA
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica:2024:68(10):1446-65 Full text
Reducing unnecessary use of intermittent pneumatic compression in intensive care: A before-and-after pilot study with environmental perspective. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2024: November 5 Full text
Digital health interventions to improve recovery for intensive care unit survivors: A systematic review. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2024: November 19 Full text
Implementation of a risk-stratified intervention bundle to prevent pressure injury in intensive care: A before–after study. OA
Australian Critical Care:2024: November 7 Full text
End of Life Issues
Symptom- and function-based trajectories of patients with dementia in hospital and community palliative care settings in the last two weeks of life: a retrospective cohort study. AUS OA
BMC Palliative Care:2024: October 21 Full text
Inequity of access to voluntary assisted dying for New Zealand citizens residing permanently in Australia. STV OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: November 6 Full text
Stroke
The clots removed from ischaemic stroke patients by mechanical thrombectomy are amyloid in nature. OA
MedRxiv:2024: November 4 Full text
Optimal timing of anticoagulation after acute ischaemic stroke with atrial fibrillation (OPTIMAS): a multicentre, blinded-endpoint, phase 4, randomised controlled trial. OA
Lancet:2024: October 24 Full text
Kidney Disease
Addressing cognitive impairment in peritoneal dialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes. OA
Clinical Kidney Journal:2024: October 15 Full text
What is the spectrum of kidney pathology associated with COVID-19? AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: November 1 Full text
Cancer
Participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by people with severe mental illness, Australia, 2006–2019: a national data linkage study. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: November 13 Full text
General practice utilisation by Australian cancer patients in the last year of life. STV OA
Family Practice:2024: November 12 Full text
Clinical Research
Implementability and impact in clinical research and the role of clinical trial networks. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2024:221(8):410-413 Full text
Dynamic interface printing. AUS OA
Nature:2024: October 30 Full text
Coordinated inheritance of extrachromosomal DNAs in cancer cells. OA
Nature:2024: November 6 Full text
