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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Worforce Issues
Addressing the ‘python’ crisis affecting medical specialist training programmes: organisational frameworks and interdisciplinary insights. AUS OA
Internal Medicine Journal:2025: August 23 Full text
Junior doctors' experiences of workplace bullying, harassment and discrimination in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand—a scoping Review. AUS OA
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: September 17 Full text
Hospital Care
Link from hospital to home: ensuring quality transitions for CKD patients. OA
Journal of Patient Experience:2025: August 28 Full text
Swallow screening of older adults at hospital admission. OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: September 16 Full text
What does ‘complex’ mean for the general medicine team? Exploring the characteristics, outcomes and clinician perspectives of complex patients: an observational cohort and cross-sectional survey. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: September 15 Full text
Novel psychoactive substances in Australian emergency departments: implications for public health practice from multi-centre prospective toxicosurveillance across five states, 2022–2023. AUS OA
International Journal of Drug Policy:2025: August 22 Full text
Palliative Care
Cool facial airflow hastens exertion recovery in chronic breathlessness: randomised crossover trial of different fan airflow speeds. OA
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care:2025:15:633-641 Full text
Shaping a knowable event or embracing a mysterious journey: A mixed methods study on palliative care clinician views on voluntary assisted dying. AUS OA
Palliative and Supportive Care:2025: September 3 Full text
Embedding a palliative care nurse consultant within a general medicine ward: a prospective exploratory study. AUS OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: September 1 Full text
Intensive Care
Animal-assisted services in Australia and New Zealand intensive care units: A cross-sectional survey. AUS OA
Australian Critical Care:2025:38(5):101272 Full text
Effect of lateral versus supine positioning on hypoxaemia in sedated adults: multicentre randomised controlled trial. OA
BMJ:2025: August 19 Full text
Diabetes
Integrative medicine for patients with diabetes and mental health disorders: a narrative review. OA
Current Psychiatry Reports:2025: July 14 Full text
Subjective smell- and taste loss in diabetes—a questionnaire-based study on 47 011 individuals with diabetes and matched controls. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 8 Full text
Type 2 diabetes and acute myocardial infarction: admission complexity and readmission rates. AUS OA
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2025: September 11 Full text
Cardiac Care
Effect of peri-operative pharmacological interventions on postoperative delirium in patients having cardiac surgery: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis. OA
Anaesthesia:2025: September 1 Full text
The electrocardiogram reimagined: AI-ECG as a prognostic beacon for valvular heart disease. OA
European Heart Journal:2025: September 5 Full text
Risk of readmission after acute myocardial infarction: insights From the CADOSA Registry. AUS OA
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2025: September 16 Full text
COVID-19
Interferon-α nasal spray prophylaxis reduces COVID-19 in cancer patients: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. OA
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2025: August 28 Full text
Azelastine nasal spray for prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infections: a phase 2 randomized clinical trial. OA
JAMA Internal Medicine:2025: September 2 Full text
Impact of dementia on outcomes in older patients with COVID-19: A nationwide inpatient sample analysis. OA
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2025: September 8 Full text
Long-term physical capacity following COVID-19: a prospective, three-year study. OA
Journal of Infection:2025: September 12 Full text
The potential bidirectional relationship between long COVID and menstruation. OA
Nature Communications:2025: September 16 Full text
Effect of metformin on the risk of post-coronavirus disease 2019 condition among individuals with overweight or obese: a population-based retrospective cohort study. OA
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2025: September 1 Full text
Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists
GLP-1 receptor agonists and sight-threatening ophthalmic complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: August 11 Full text
Semaglutide or tirzepatide and optic nerve and visual pathway disorders in type 2 diabetes. OA
JAMA Network Open:2025: August 11 Full text
Prevalence of overweight and obesity among patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes: implications for semaglutide eligibility to further reduce residual risk. AUS OA
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2025: September 1 Full text
Cardiovascular risk reduction with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is proportional to HbA1c lowering in type 2 diabetes: An updated meta-regression analysis incorporating FLOW and SOUL trials. OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 9 Full text
Lower risk of cardiovascular events in patients initiated on semaglutide 2.4 mg in the real-world: Results from the SCORE study (Semaglutide Effects on Cardiovascular Outcomes in People with Overweight or Obesity in the Real World) OA
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism:2025: September 9 Full text
Vaccines
RSV vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization among US adults aged 60 years or older during 2 seasons.
JAMA:2025: August 30 Full text
Transient increased risk of shingles post Shingrix vaccination: Self-controlled case series analysis. AUS OA
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2025 September 9 Full text
