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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Primary Care
The clinical presentation, investigation, and management of women diagnosed with endometriosis in Australian general practices, 2011–2021: an open cohort study. OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: October 15 Full text
What are the characteristics and outputs of primary care Practice Based Research Networks (PBRN’s) in Australia? A scoping review. AUS OA
Physical Therapy Reviews:2025: October 3 Full text
Using generative artificial intelligence in clinical practice: a narrative review and proposed agenda for implementation. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: October 6 Full text
Infectious Diseases
HIV: is it now a thing of the past? AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia”2025: October 1 Full text
The forgotten pandemic: Hong Kong influenza in Australia (1968–1970). AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: September 28 Full text
Diabetes
Diabetes is an increasingly common issue after heart transplantation: a case for integrated diabetes care. AUS OA
Heart, Lung and Transplantation:2025: September 26 Full text
Risk of depression with GLP-1 receptor agonists use in overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes: A new-user, active-comparator cohort study. OA
Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism:2025: September 29 Full text
COVID-19
Efficacy of inhaled nebulised unfractionated heparin to prevent intubation or death in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: an investigator-initiated international meta-trial of randomised clinical studies. AUS OA
eClinical Medicine:2025: September 27 Full text
Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID. OA
Brain Communications:2025: October 1 Full text
Olfactory dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 infection in the RECOVER Adult Cohort. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: September 25 Full text
Emergency Care
The use of epinephrine in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. OA
BMC Emergency Medicine:2025: September 22 Full text
The risk of death after hospitalisation following intentional self-poisoning: a retrospective observational study (PAVLOVA-2). AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: October 8 Full text
Intensive Care
Post intensive care syndrome awareness and communication: surveys of ICU providers and patients. OA
Chest:2025: October 10 Full text
Surgical Care
Mortality, morbidity, and impact on future anaesthesia after perioperative anaphylaxis related to neuromuscular blocking agents: an 11-year single-centre retrospective study. OA
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2025: September 30 Full text
Feasibility of the Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (M-TICS) in the peri-operative environment. STV OA
Anaesthesia:2025: October 14 Full text
Postoperative insulin requirements in surgical patients receiving fully automated insulin delivery in the hospital. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: October 10 Full text
Changes in patient management after preoperative MRI for newly diagnosed breast cancer: a multicentre prospective observational study. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: September 24 Full text
Mental Health
Chronotype and mental health: are late sleepers more vulnerable? OA
Current Psychiatry Reports:2025:27:544-52 Full text
Body mass index and mental disorders: A Danish cohort study. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: October 10 Full text
The association between dual sensory impairment and dementia: a meta-analysis and systematic review of the literature. OA
Age and Ageing:2025: September 25 Full text
