D L Crombie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5543249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D L Crombie |
| GIVEN NAMES | D L |
| FAMILY NAME | Crombie |
| SIGNATURE | CROMBIE D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of General Practitioners |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Relation between high temperature and mortality
Concurrence of monthly variations of mortality related to underlying cause in Europe
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The study aimed to examine the concurrence in the variation of monthly numbers of deaths in summer and winter from the four main underlying causes - respiratory, circulatory, neoplastic, and all others - in four countries. In particular, the hypothesis that most non-respiratory concurrent deaths are miscoded respiratory deaths and that a large proportion of the winter mortality currently attributed to circulatory disorders should…
The problem of diagnostic variability in general practice
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the scale, source, and relevance of variation between general practices in respect of the rates with which patients consulted with illnesses falling in each of several diagnostic groups. DESIGN--This study involved a general practice morbidity survey conducted over two years, 1970-72. All patients who consulted their general practitioners were identified and the number of these who consulted with diagnoses …
Disease concurrence in diabetes mellitus
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine disease concurrence, using diabetes mellitus as an ullustrative example. DESIGN--The study involved a general practice morbidity survey, conducted over 12 months in 1981-82. All patients who consulted their general practitioners with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (type 1 or type 2) were identified and the number of these who consulted with additional morbidities were counted for each rubric of the Royal …
Executive Council lists and general practitioner files
An investigation of the accuracy of general practitioner and Executive Council files was approached by a comparison of the two. High error rates were found, including both file errors and record errors. On analysis it emerged that file error rates could not be satisfactorily expressed except in a time-dimensioned way, and we were unable to do this within the context of our study. Record error rates and field error rates were expressible as propor…
The Relationship of Hospital and Domiciliary Care
Domiciliary services are responsible for a relatively large share of medical care compared with the hospitals. To improve our system of medical care it is essential to know as much as possible about the quantity and quality of illness treated in general practice. We can then decide what further services are needed and who should run them
The Beliefs and Attitudes of General Practitioners
It would be generally agreed that a doctor's attitude to his work, his fellow men and life in general must influence his efficiency in dispensing medical care. In general practice where the personal relationship between the patient and the doctor is so important this influence must be particularly marked. Wolfe' has attempted an evaluation of this problem in an exploratory study of general practitioners' attitudes in Urbanville, Canada. His asses…
The Contribution of the Nurse in General Practice
In general it seems to be taken for granted that general practitioner services will continue to be based on individual doctor-patient relationships with no intervening third party. This pattern is not followed in some other medical services, for example at Child Welfare clinics, and in Industrial and School Health Services, where the presence of a nurse as an intermediary between doctor and patient is accepted without question. Nor is it invariab…
The Use of a General Practitioner's Time
In his presidential address to the Royal Statistical Society in 1951, Professor Bradford Hill gave details of a survey of the day's work of a doctor, based on records kept by doctors during the 12 months which ended July 1, 1939. The two main indices were attendances of patients at the doctor's surgery and visits by the doctor to insured patients, and varia tions were examined by day, week, and month. The same indices have also been used in surve…
The problem of diagnostic variability in general practice
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the scale, source, and relevance of variation between general practices in respect of the rates with which patients consulted with illnesses falling in each of several diagnostic groups. DESIGN--This study involved a general practice morbidity survey conducted over two years, 1970-72. All patients who consulted their general practitioners were identified and the number of these who consulted with diagnoses …
Concurrence of monthly variations of mortality related to underlying cause in Europe
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The study aimed to examine the concurrence in the variation of monthly numbers of deaths in summer and winter from the four main underlying causes - respiratory, circulatory, neoplastic, and all others - in four countries. In particular, the hypothesis that most non-respiratory concurrent deaths are miscoded respiratory deaths and that a large proportion of the winter mortality currently attributed to circulatory disorders should…
The Use of a General Practitioner's Time
In his presidential address to the Royal Statistical Society in 1951, Professor Bradford Hill gave details of a survey of the day's work of a doctor, based on records kept by doctors during the 12 months which ended July 1, 1939. The two main indices were attendances of patients at the doctor's surgery and visits by the doctor to insured patients, and varia tions were examined by day, week, and month. The same indices have also been used in surve…
The Contribution of the Nurse in General Practice
In general it seems to be taken for granted that general practitioner services will continue to be based on individual doctor-patient relationships with no intervening third party. This pattern is not followed in some other medical services, for example at Child Welfare clinics, and in Industrial and School Health Services, where the presence of a nurse as an intermediary between doctor and patient is accepted without question. Nor is it invariab…
The Relationship of Hospital and Domiciliary Care
Domiciliary services are responsible for a relatively large share of medical care compared with the hospitals. To improve our system of medical care it is essential to know as much as possible about the quantity and quality of illness treated in general practice. We can then decide what further services are needed and who should run them
The Beliefs and Attitudes of General Practitioners
It would be generally agreed that a doctor's attitude to his work, his fellow men and life in general must influence his efficiency in dispensing medical care. In general practice where the personal relationship between the patient and the doctor is so important this influence must be particularly marked. Wolfe' has attempted an evaluation of this problem in an exploratory study of general practitioners' attitudes in Urbanville, Canada. His asses…
Executive Council lists and general practitioner files
An investigation of the accuracy of general practitioner and Executive Council files was approached by a comparison of the two. High error rates were found, including both file errors and record errors. On analysis it emerged that file error rates could not be satisfactorily expressed except in a time-dimensioned way, and we were unable to do this within the context of our study. Record error rates and field error rates were expressible as propor…
Disease concurrence in diabetes mellitus
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine disease concurrence, using diabetes mellitus as an ullustrative example. DESIGN--The study involved a general practice morbidity survey, conducted over 12 months in 1981-82. All patients who consulted their general practitioners with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (type 1 or type 2) were identified and the number of these who consulted with additional morbidities were counted for each rubric of the Royal …
The problem of diagnostic variability in general practice
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine the scale, source, and relevance of variation between general practices in respect of the rates with which patients consulted with illnesses falling in each of several diagnostic groups. DESIGN--This study involved a general practice morbidity survey conducted over two years, 1970-72. All patients who consulted their general practitioners were identified and the number of these who consulted with diagnoses …
Concurrence of monthly variations of mortality related to underlying cause in Europe
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The study aimed to examine the concurrence in the variation of monthly numbers of deaths in summer and winter from the four main underlying causes - respiratory, circulatory, neoplastic, and all others - in four countries. In particular, the hypothesis that most non-respiratory concurrent deaths are miscoded respiratory deaths and that a large proportion of the winter mortality currently attributed to circulatory disorders should…
Relation between high temperature and mortality
Medicine (9 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · General practice (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Pediatrics (3 works) · Pediatrics (3 works) · Work (physics) (3 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (2 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (2 works) · Demography (2 works)