Evidence-Based Anticoagulation Decision Making for Atrial Fibrillation—How We Are Doing? (Maybe Not So Well?)

Hypertension control: how well are we doing?

BACKGROUND We compared blood pressure (BP) control in a recent cohort of hypertensive military veterans with BP control in a previous cohort and examined whether hypertension treatment practices, as defined by the frequency of antihypertensive medication dosage increases, have changed over time. METHODS We abstracted 1999 outpatient chart data including visit type, BP measurements, comorbidit...

Anticoagulation control with vitamin K antagonists: how well are we doing?

might resolve over time is not an optimal approach. We recommend that a first-generation antihistamine-decongestant (our choice is sustained release brompheniramine, 12 mg, and pseudoephedrine, 120 mg every 12 h) be administered as the initial therapy whatever the duration of cough, unless there is a contraindication to one of these drugs. This empiric approach makes sense because postnasal dri...

Psychological care for disaster victims: are we doing well?

Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action: are we doing enough?

What is the point of a journal like Public Health Nutrition? My personal view is that the journal should be a forum for the presentation of original research to identify the causes of nutrition-related health problems, to identify what works in promoting the application of that evidence in prevention and promotion, and ultimately to inform and influence policy to improve health. An important pa...

Perinatal and infant postmortem examinations: how well are we doing?

AIM To investigate the quality of perinatal and infant necropsies and assess the relation between the quality and value of this investigation in different outcome groups. METHODS Cohort analysis of 540 deaths during 1993 of babies between 20 weeks' gestation and one year of age born to women usually resident in Wales. Cases were identified from the All Wales Perinatal Survey. Each case was as...