Brian T Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 9169459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian T Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian T |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Helping the Aged: A Field Experiment in Social Work
Variation in demand for accident and emergency departments in England from 1974 to 1985
Over the period 1974-85 the range of mean annual new attendance rates at Accident and Emergency departments among English health districts was 36-673 per 1000 residents. The socio-economic diversity of these districts explained only one-third of the variation. The rates rose significantly (p less than 0.05) in 89 per cent of districts over the twelve years. Again, socio-economic variation only partly explained differences in district trends. Incr…
Effects of subsidising bus travel on the occurrence of road traffic casualties
Between 1975 and 1 April 1986, public transport by bus in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, England, was increasingly subsidised. Trends in road traffic accident casualties between 1974 and 1983 in all the six provincial English metropolitan counties have been compared in order to examine the possible effect of this unique subsidy on the incidence of road traffic accident casualties. During that period the total number of casualties in …
Emergency admission to hospital from a deputizing service. A controlled study of duration of stay and outcome
TheGillie report onTheField ofWorkofthe Family Doctor (Ministry ofHealth, 1963) maintained that thefamily doctor's personal knowledge ofhispatients equips himas'theessential intermediary inthetransmission ofspecialist skills totheindividual'; and,'without this function ofthe personal doctor, thehospital service canbeused wastefully, evendamagingly tothepatient'. Theuseofa deputizing service implies a departure frompersonal doctoring since thedoct…
Emergency admissions to hospital from a deputizing service: A controlled study of length of stay and outcome
periods of high pollution.In an attempt to throw some light on this the opportunity has been taken to study a sample of adolescents now living in London who were born around the time of the disastrous London fog of December 1952.In the first phase of the study (1970-71) 800 subjects born in 1952 were seen at an average age of 184, then in the second phase a similar sample drawn from the same areas but born in 1953 was seen, again at age
Variation in demand for accident and emergency departments in England from 1974 to 1985
Over the period 1974-85 the range of mean annual new attendance rates at Accident and Emergency departments among English health districts was 36-673 per 1000 residents. The socio-economic diversity of these districts explained only one-third of the variation. The rates rose significantly (p less than 0.05) in 89 per cent of districts over the twelve years. Again, socio-economic variation only partly explained differences in district trends. Incr…
Emergency admission to hospital from a deputizing service. A controlled study of duration of stay and outcome
TheGillie report onTheField ofWorkofthe Family Doctor (Ministry ofHealth, 1963) maintained that thefamily doctor's personal knowledge ofhispatients equips himas'theessential intermediary inthetransmission ofspecialist skills totheindividual'; and,'without this function ofthe personal doctor, thehospital service canbeused wastefully, evendamagingly tothepatient'. Theuseofa deputizing service implies a departure frompersonal doctoring since thedoct…
Emergency admissions to hospital from a deputizing service: A controlled study of length of stay and outcome
periods of high pollution.In an attempt to throw some light on this the opportunity has been taken to study a sample of adolescents now living in London who were born around the time of the disastrous London fog of December 1952.In the first phase of the study (1970-71) 800 subjects born in 1952 were seen at an average age of 184, then in the second phase a similar sample drawn from the same areas but born in 1953 was seen, again at age
Effects of subsidising bus travel on the occurrence of road traffic casualties
Between 1975 and 1 April 1986, public transport by bus in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire, England, was increasingly subsidised. Trends in road traffic accident casualties between 1974 and 1983 in all the six provincial English metropolitan counties have been compared in order to examine the possible effect of this unique subsidy on the incidence of road traffic accident casualties. During that period the total number of casualties in …
Variation in demand for accident and emergency departments in England from 1974 to 1985
Over the period 1974-85 the range of mean annual new attendance rates at Accident and Emergency departments among English health districts was 36-673 per 1000 residents. The socio-economic diversity of these districts explained only one-third of the variation. The rates rose significantly (p less than 0.05) in 89 per cent of districts over the twelve years. Again, socio-economic variation only partly explained differences in district trends. Incr…
Helping the Aged: A Field Experiment in Social Work
Medicine (4 works) · Medical emergency (3 works) · Emergency and Acute Care Studies (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (2 works) · Service (business) (2 works) · Accident and emergency (1 works) · Amenity (1 works) · Attendance (1 works) · Business (1 works)