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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Health System
Redrawing Australia's next National Health Reform Agreement: confronting the wickedest of wicked problems. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: October 8 Full text
Navigating high-cost medicines: summary of the guiding principles for the governance of high-cost medicines in Australian hospitals. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: September 27 Full text
Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: October 6 Full text
Aged Care and Ageing
The Australian Frailty Network: Development of a consumer-focussed national response to frailty. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: September 29 Full text
Reduction of rehospitalization with addition of Geriatrics/Transitions of Care Consult Service.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2024: Full text
Ageing well with diabetes: the role of technology. SVHA
Diabetologica:2024: August 13 Full text
The Careful Project: Evaluating the acceptability of local virtual reality experiences as a leisure activity for residents in aged care. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: October 7 Full text
Emergency Care
Nonstandard cardiopulmonary resuscitation and basic life support: A scoping review of techniques applicable to wheelchair users. AUS
Australasian Emergency Care:2024: October 5 Full text
Acknowledgement and use of advance care directives and goals of care by emergency department staff: a mixed method post intervention study. AUS
BMC Palliative Care:2024: October 1 Full text
Prisoners in the emergency department: lessons from a recent inquest. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: September 25 Full text
Epidemiology and outcome of medical emergency team calls within 48 hours of intensive care unit discharge. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: October 19 Full text
Effectiveness of a Disability Liaison Officer service in a metropolitan emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: October 18 Full text
Supporting clinicians post exposure to potentially traumatic events: Emergency department peer support program evaluation. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: October 13 Full text
The use and impact of pathology tests in emergency department patients with mental health-related complaints: a cross sectional study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: October 25 Full text
Surgery
Accuracy of surgical death information: comparison of data held by Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality and Victorian Agency for Health Information. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: August 23 Full text
An integrated model of care between general surgery and general medicine rationalizes and enhances the care of older surgical patients. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: October 14 Full text
Atrial fibrillation surgery in Australia: are we doing enough? SVHA
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2024: October 4 Full text
Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Single-use vs. reusable flexible bronchoscopes for airway management and in critical care: a narrative review.
Anaesthesia:2024: September 30 Full text
A plea for enhanced monitoring of depth of sedation in patients who are intubated and ventilated. SVHA
Critical Care:2024: October 22 Full text
Sugammadex hypersensitivity: a multicentre retrospective analysis of a large Australian cohort. AUS
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2024: October 15 Full text
Impact of adverse childhood experiences on analgesia-related outcomes: a systematic review.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2024: October 22 Full text
Cardiology
Treating heart failure by targeting the vagus nerve.
Heart Failure Reviews: 2024:August 9 Full text
Cardiorespiratory fitness in childhood cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. SVHA
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2024: October 4 Full text
Detecting and managing cognitive impairment in cardiac patients: insights from qualitative interviews with nurses. AUS
Contemporary Nurse:2024: October 18 Full text
Can incidental physical activity offset the deleterious associations of sedentary behaviour with major adverse cardiovascular events?
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2024: September 26 Full text
A randomised controlled implementation study integrating patient self-screening with a remote central monitoring system to screen community-dwellers aged 75 years and older for atrial fibrillation. AUS
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology:2024: September 25 Full text
Gastroenterology
What defines a healthy gut microbiome?
Gut:2024: September 25 Full text
Noninvasive, microbiome-based diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. SVHA
Nature Medicine:2024: October 4 Full text
Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists
Estimating the lives that could be saved by expanded access to weight-loss drugs. OA
PNAS:2024: October 15 Full text
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists before upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and risk of pulmonary aspiration or discontinuation of procedure: cohort study. OA
BMJ:2024: 387:e080340 Full text
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and kidney outcomes. SVHA OA
Journal of Diabetes Care: October 4 Full text
Effect of semaglutide on cardiac structure and function in patients with obesity-related heart failure. OA
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2024:84(17):1587-1602 Full text
Effects of semaglutide on heart failure outcomes in diabetes and chronic kidney disease in the FLOW Trial. OA
Journal of the American College of Cardiology:2024:84(17):1615-28 Full text
