R M Acheson

Biographic Data

ID5800839
NAMER M Acheson
GIVEN NAMESR M
FAMILY NAMEAcheson
SIGNATUREACHESON R M
AFFILIATIONSTrinity College Dublin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
H-INDEX1

  • New Haven survey of joint diseases. XVI. Impairment, disability, and arthritis

    R M Acheson, G N GinsburgARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1973Cited by: 1References: 2

    Over the past two decades epidemiologists interested in chronic illness have tended to concen trate on conditions which are lethal, and they have generally directed more attention to the elucidation of the causes of such diseases than to their social consequences. Although this work has been of great importance, one result is that we know less than we should about the burden on society of many diseases, especially those with a low case fatality r…

  • Response to typed and mimeographed letters in a survey using postal questionnaires

    Jennifer L Kelsey, R M Acheson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1971References: 3

    In epidemiological studies using postal question naires, a decision must be made as to whether the covering letter should be mimeographed or typed by hand. Considerable time and money are saved when mimeographed letters are used, yet it is generally assumed that hand typed and signed covering letters bring about a higher response rate. During the course of an epidemiological study of slipped capital femoral epiphysis a comparison was made of resp…

  • Sex, Socio-economic Status, and Secular Increase in Stature

    R M Acheson, RoyM Acheson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1964Cited by: 1References: 7

    The evidence that each succeeding generation of children in Western Europe is taller than its pre- decessor has been accumulating (Boyne and Leitch, 1954; Hulse, 1957; Boyne, 1960; Tanner, 1962) and the question has been raised whether this phenome- non is primarily due to improvement of the en- vironment during childhood, or to heterosis (British Medical Journal, 1961). If, as we believe, environ- ment plays an important part in the secular incr…

  • Factors influencing Referrals to the Out-patients Department of a London Teaching Hospital

    R M Acheson, Roger Blaney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1963

    Among the important steps taken with the intro duction of the National Health Act in 1949 was ratification of an idea, which had been developing for some years, that the hospital out-patients* department should become a centre to which a general practitioner could refer any patient for a specialist opinion. The Government, through the agency of the Ministry of Health and the Registrar General, has subsequently undertaken and published inquiries o…

  • The Aetiology of Coronary Heart Disease in Old Men

    R M AchesonARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1961References: 31

    All the men were seen by the author between January, 1957

  • Mortality from Cerebrovascular Accidents and Hypertension in the Republic of Ireland

    R M AchesonARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1960

    It is well known that hypertension may be associated with certain cerebrovascular accidents on the one hand, and with coronary heart disease on the other. The fact that two diseases tend to occur together in one patient, however, does not necessarily mean that they are similar in their epidemiology or mortality. A study of the mortality from coronary artery disease in the Republic of Ireland over the past 30 years has recently been published from…

  • Observer Error and Variation in the Interpretation of Electrocardiograms in an Epidemiological Study of Coronary Heart Disease

    R M AchesonARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1960References: 2

  • Coronary and Other Heart Disease in a Group of Irish Males aged 65-85

    R M Acheson, E D AchesonARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1958References: 4

  • Mortality from Coronary Artery Disease and "Myocardial Degeneration" in the Republic of Ireland

    R M Acheson, E H ThorntonARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1958References: 3

    Ryle and Russell (1949) published convincing evidence that the number of deaths due to coronary artery disease in England and Wales had increased dramatically between 1921 and 1939, and the Registrar General (1953b) has shown that this in- crease was maintained through the post-war years.Other workers, particularly Morris and his associates (Morris, 1951; Morris, Heady, and Barley, 1952; Morris, Heady, Raffle, Roberts, and Parks, 1953), have foun…

  • Oxford Child Health Survey

    David Hewitt, C K Westropp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1955Cited by: 1References: 6

    Health Survey was to study the effects of environ-ment on physical development (Ryle, 1948), and of the two dozen papers which have so far appeared six have dealt with this topic (Hewitt and Stewart

  • Oxford Child Health Survey

    R M Acheson, RoyM Acheson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1954References: 8

    In the majority of children the two complementary processes of growthf and skeletal maturationf are so well balanced that they tend to be thought of as two aspects of a single process. This view is partly justified by the fact that the two processes start together and must stop together, since there can be no further increase in height once the epiphyses of the long bones have closed. Yet growth and maturation can proceed quite independently, as …