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
Stroke survivors’ perspectives on decisions about their transition to independent walking in hospital: a qualitative study. AUS
Disability and Rehabilitation:2025: July 28 Full text
Time for a rethink? Discharge summary completion is often delayed and associated with increased readmission. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: July 31 Full text
Patient perception of physician attire: a systematic review update.
BMJ Open:2025: August 12 Full text
Determinants of nonattendance in a urology outpatient clinic: a 5-year retrospective study in a tertiary metropolitan hospital. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: August 14 Full text
Co-designing a model of brilliant care for older people. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: August 1 Full text
Ante-mortem interventions for deceased donation: legal barriers and uncertainty in Australia's decision-making frameworks. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: August 5 Full text
Cancer Care
Exercise as adjuvant therapy in colon cancer: implications from the CHALLENGE Trial. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: August 8 Full text
The MyPath Pain Pathway: developing a digital patient-centred care pathway for cancer pain.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2025: August 21 Full text
Melanoma update: is a cure now in sight? AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2025:55(8):1242-50 Full text
Emergency Care
Emergency department presentations are increasing in acuity in the state of Victoria, Australia—statewide hierarchical regression model for 2018–2024. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: August 4 Full text
Prevalence of GHB-related presentations to a metropolitan emergency department in Melbourne. STV
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: August 4 Full text
Cardiovascular Care
Emerging use of pulmonary artery and cardiac pressure sensing technology in the management of worsening heart failure events.
Heart Failure Reviews:2025:30:869-81 Full text
Aspirin, cardiovascular events, and major bleeding in older adults: extended follow-up of the ASPREE trial. AUS
European Heart Journal:2025: August 12 Full text
Diagnostic work-up of anemia and associated health outcomes in people with heart failure.
BMC Medicine:2025: August 12 Full text
Mental Disorders
Gut microbiota links to cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder via modulating synaptic plasticity.
BMC Medicine:2025: August 12 Full text
Dementia
Improving clinicians' self-efficacy in delivering a diagnosis of dementia: A before-after study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: August 7 Full text
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Nature:2025: August 6 Full text
Palliative and End Of Life Care
Formative evaluation of an employee-driven approach to improve care in the dying phase in hospitals.
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: July 18 Full text
Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for depression and anxiety associated with life threatening illness: A phase 2b randomized controlled trial. SVHA
General Hospital Psychiatry:2025: August 12 Full text
Infection Control
Effect of HEPA filtration air purifiers on blood pressure: a pragmatic randomized crossover trial.
JACC:2025:86(8):577-89 Full text
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists
Neurodegeneration and stroke after semaglutide and tirzepatide in patients with diabetes and obesity.
JAMA Network Open:2025: July 15 Full text
Ketosis and ketoacidosis in hospitalized patients receiving SGLT2 inhibitor therapy.
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: August 11 Full text
2025 ADS/ANZCA/GESA/NACOS clinical practice recommendations on the peri-procedural use of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists. AUS
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care:2025: August 14 Full text
