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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Emergency Care
RESCUE - Rapid, Effective, Safe Communication in Emergency Departments: A cross-sectional e-survey. AUS
Australasian Emergency Care:2024: December 27 Full text
Review article: scoping review of interventions that reduce mechanical restraint in the emergency department. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: 37(1):e14498 Full text
Surgical Care
Association of Anaesthetists Guidelines: guidelines on the use of blood components and their alternatives 2024.
Anaesthesia:2025: January 9 Full text
Intensive Care
A systematic review of the comparative effects of sound and music interventions for intensive care unit patients’ outcomes.
Australian Critical Care:2024: December 27 Full text
Palliative Care
Improving palliative care for people who use alcohol and other drugs. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: January 20 Full text
Alzheimer’s Diseases and Dementia
Blarcamesine for the treatment of early Alzheimer's Disease: results from the ANAVEX2-73-AD-004 phase IIB/III trial. AUS
Journal of the Prevention of Alzheimers Disaese:2025: January 1 Full text
Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers: population based cross sectional study.
BMJ:2024: December 17 Full text
Time to nursing home admission and death in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMJ:2025: January 8 Full text
Neurological Disorders
On brain stimulation in epilepsy.
Brain:2025: January 2 Full text
Iatrogenic harm in functional neurological disorder.
Brain:2025:148(1):27-28 Full text
Cancer Screening and Treatment
Non-invasive multiple cancer screening using trained detection canines and artificial intelligence: a prospective double-blind study.
Nature:2024: November 14
The impact of the BreastScreen NSW transition from film to digital mammography, 2002–2016: a linked population health data analysis.
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: January 12 Full text
Incidence and prognostic implications of PSA persistence and relapse after radical prostatectomy. Population-based study.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2025: January 17 Full text
Obesity
Proteomic changes upon treatment with semaglutide in individuals with obesity.
Nature Medicine:2025: January 3 Full text
Empagliflozin in nondiabetic individuals with calcium and uric acid kidney stones: a randomized phase 2 trial.
Nature Medicine:2025: January 2 Full text
Miscellaneous
Big brother or big opportunity? Utilization of EHR use metadata in the inpatient setting: A mixed methods study at 16 organizations.
Journal of Hospital Medicine:2024: December 25 Full text
Ultrasound transducer disinfection for percutaneous procedures: A review of the evidence supporting guideline recommendations. AUS
Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine:2024:27(4):242-50 Full text
Experienced-based co-design for cardiovascular and chronic disease research.
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing:2025: January 2 Full text
Multidisciplinary team approach for CKD-associated osteoporosis.
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation:2025:41(1):48-59 Full text
Insomnia, OSA, and mood disorders: the gut connection.
Current Psychiatry Reports:2024(12):703-11 Full text
Patient experiences of receiving stroke discharge information in accordance with preferences. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: January 9 Full text
Atlas of the plasma proteome in health and disease in 53,026 adults.
Cell:2025: January 9 Full text
