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 Care Management and Quality
The four frames for change management in health services. AUS
Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management:2025: May 22 Full text
Comparing glycaemic outcomes of digital and paper-based hospitals (GOOD study). AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: May 21 Full text
Nurses' experiences of working with healthcare interpreters when caring for patients with limited proficiency in the primary language: a qualitative systematic review. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: May 25 Full text
Experiences and perceptions of registered nurses who work in acute care regarding incident reporting: a scoping review. STV
Healthcare:2025: May 26 Full text
Effectiveness of organisational strategies for pressure injury prevention and treatment in acute hospital settings: a systematic review. STV
Journal of Advanced Nursing:2025: June 5 Full text
Cultural humility training in mental health service provision: a scoping review of the foundational and conceptual literature. STV
Healthcare:2025: June 4 Full text
Therapeutics
2025 Guidelines for direct oral anticoagulants: a practical guidance on the prescription, laboratory testing, peri-operative and bleeding management. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: May 31 Full text
Medicinal cannabis: is current use clinically justified? AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 3 Full text
Antithrombotic therapy and mortality risk in older adults with hip fractures.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2025: June 7 Full text
Emergency Care
Reducing pathology testing in emergency departments: A scoping review. AUS
Australasian Emergency Care:2025: May 27 Full text
Evaluation of a novel clinical assistant model of care on patient flow and emergency department length of stay. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2025: May 30 Full text
Intensive Care
Australian clinical practice guideline for physical rehabilitation and mobilisation in adult intensive care units. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2025:38(4):101235 Full text
Cardiac Care
National survey of rapid access chest pain clinics in Australia. AUS
Chest:2025: May 22 Full text
Promoting resilience to weather-related and seasonal provocations to health in people with multimorbid heart disease: a prospective pragmatic, randomised trial. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 24 Full text
Surgical Care
Needs assessment of surgical skills of interns: a qualitative study in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. STV
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025:95(5):991-96 Full text
Oncology Care
Melanoma update: is a cure now in sight? AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 19 Full text
Donepezil for cancer-related cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Clinical and Experimental Medicine:2025: June 10 Full text
British Society of Gastroenterology practice guidance on the management of acute and chronic gastrointestinal symptoms and complications as a result of treatment for cancer.
Gut:2025:74:1040-67 Full text
Association of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications and aspirin with colorectal cancer incidence in older adults.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2025: June 14 Full text
Voluntary Assisted Dying
‘This is perfect, thank you’: Research poetry on gratitude for voluntary assisted dying in Victoria, Australia. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: June 9 Full text
Implementing voluntary assisted dying in New South Wales correctional settings. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: May 26 Full text
Addiction
Naloxone dosing in the era of synthetic opioids: applying the Goldilocks principle.
Addiction:2025: April 8 Full text
Identifying key risk factors for intentional self-harm, including suicide, among a cohort of people prescribed opioid agonist treatment: A predictive modelling study. AUS
Addiction:2025: May 25 Full text
Dementia
The Specialist Dementia Care Program in Australia: Evidence to date on a home-like model of care for people with very severe behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: May 22 Full text
COVID-19
Long-term coronary microvascular and cardiac dysfunction after Severe COVID-19 hospitalization.
JAMA Network Open:2025: June 9 Full text
Remote patient monitoring for managing acute COVID-19, and mortality and hospital use in Sydney, New South Wales, 2021–22: a retrospective observational cohort study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: May 26 Full text
Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography detects persistent arterial inflammation after symptomatic COVID-19. AUS
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2025: June 25 Full text
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 vaccination strategies on infections and hospitalisations in Victoria with non-seasonal epidemic wave patterns: a modelling study. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 1 Full text
Aspirin reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes associated with COVID-19.
npj Metabolic Health and Disease:2025: June 18 Full text
Herpesvirus and neurological manifestations in patients with severe coronavirus disease.
Virology Journal:2025: June 8 Full text
