Alex Holmes

Evaluation of consultation liaison psychiatry in Australian public hospitals (AU-CLS-1)

Mary-Jo Flavel, Alex Holmes, Steve Ellen, Rahul Khanna

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine whether consultation liaison psychiatric service (CLS) staffing within Australian public ..

Validation of Two Screening Tools for Detecting Delirium in Older Patients in the Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study

Rami K Aldwikat, Elizabeth Manias, Alex Holmes, Emily Tomlinson, Patricia Nicholson

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

(1) Background: Delirium is a common complication among surgical patients after major surgery, but it is often underdiagnosed in t..

Working with palliative care physicians to prepare for voluntary assisted dying legislation

Alex Holmes, Alexandra Clinch, Juli Moran, Jaclyn Yoong, Melanie Benson, Mark Boughey, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: The Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (the Act) exposed a spectrum of opinions regarding euthanasia and physi..

Palliative care physicians' preparation and planning for the implementation of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act in Victoria

Jennifer Philip, Alex Holmes, Melanie Benson, Mark Boughey, Jaclyn Yoong, Alexandra Clinch, Juli Moran

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: In November 2017, the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Act was passed enabling people with a progressive termi..

Can depressed patients make a decision to request voluntary assisted dying?

Alex Holmes, Peter Lange, Cameron Stewart, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Michael Dooley, Jennifer Philip, Camille La Brooy, Paul Komesaroff

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

Depressive symptoms, including those as part of a major depressive disorder, are common at the end of life. A number of psychiatri..

A Pilot Study of the Efficacy of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Treating Posttraumatic Psychopathology: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Meaghan L O'Donnell, Winnie Lau, Katherine Chisholm, James Agathos, Jonathon Little, Sonia Terhaag, Rachel Brand, Andrea Putica, Alexander CN Holmes, Lynda Katona, Kim L Felmingham, Kim Murray, Fardous Hosseiny, Matthew W Gallagher

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS

The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) is an intervention that targets common mechanisms t..

The impact of increasing general hospital admissions on Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Alex Holmes, Dennis Handrinos, Simon Jones, Beatrice Huang

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify changes in patients referred to CLP at a typical inner urban teaching hospi..

Homeless men with psychosis are spending more time shelterless

Daniel Burton, Simon Jones, Trevor Carlisle, Alex Holmes

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine if homeless men with psychosis in central Melbourne have spent a greater p..

FKBP5 Genetic Variation and Expression Among Depressed Individuals with Chronic Hepatitis C

Duy Pham Anh, Sern Wei Yeoh, Diana Lewis, Darren Wong, Gursharan Chana, Chad Bousman, Ting Ting Lee, Md Shaki Mostaid, Alex Holmes, Michael Saling, Ian Everall, Amanda Nicoll

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  HEPATOLOGY

Depression, fatigue and neurocognitive deficits in chronic hepatitis C

Sern Wei Yeoh, Alex CN Holmes, Michael M Saling, Ian P Everall, Amanda J Nicoll

Journal article  |  2018  |  HEPATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection experience a range of symptoms including depression, fatigue and neurocogn..