Falling between the cracks

Falling Between the Cracks

Falling between the cracks: a case of amiodarone toxicity.

emergency department with a 12-day history of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, along with a six-month history of progressive shortness of breath. Atrial fibrillation had been diagnosed seven months earlier, at which time she had started taking amiodarone (400 mg twice daily) and warfarin (1 mg daily). Her medical history included hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, degenerative disc diseas...

"Falling Through the Cracks:" Young Adults, Drugs, and Incarceration.

As a clinician working with high-risk youths in New York City, many of whom are justice-involved and substance users, I applaud Welty et al. for their illuminating article in the May issue of AJPH. Their study revealed many noteworthy findings, including the declining prevalence of substance-use disorders (SUDs) among justice-involved youths from about 50% at baseline to nearly 20% 12 years lat...

Falling Between Two Cracks: The Indeterminate Character of Mid-level Government

This article argues that the neglect of mid-level government among public administration scholars is regrettable because the investigation of developments within this level of governmental could shed new light on various core themes in public administration. In order to understand developments taking place at the local level, it is often necessary to investigate what is going on at the mid-leve...

Applied public health research - falling through the cracks?

BACKGROUND There is a degree of dissonance between the types of evaluative research required by organisations providing or commissioning health care, those recommended by organisations developing evidence-based guidance, and those which research funding bodies are prepared to support. METHODS We present a case study of efforts to establish a pragmatic but robust evaluation of local exercise r...