What do we know about who does and does not attend general health checks? Findings from a narrative scoping review
Journal Article
Dryden, R., Williams, B., McCowan, C., & Themessl-Huber, M. (2012)
What do we know about who does and does not attend general health checks? Findings from a narrative scoping review. BMC Public Health, 12, 1-23. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-723
Background: General and preventive health checks are a key feature of contemporary policies of anticipatory care. Ensuring high and equitable uptake of such general health che...
Intervention description is not enough: evidence from an in-depth multiple case study on the untold role and impact of context in randomised controlled trials of seven complex interventions
Journal Article
Wells, M., Williams, B., Treweek, S., Coyle, J., & Taylor, J. (2012)
Intervention description is not enough: evidence from an in-depth multiple case study on the untold role and impact of context in randomised controlled trials of seven complex interventions. Trials, 13, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-95
Background: A number of single case reports have suggested that the context within which intervention studies take place may challenge the assumptions that underpin randomised...
Assessing Asthma control in UK primary care: Use of routinely collected prospective observational consultation data to determine appropriateness of a variety of control assessment models
Journal Article
Hoskins, G., Williams, B., Jackson, C., Norman, P. D., & Donnan, P. T. (2011)
Assessing Asthma control in UK primary care: Use of routinely collected prospective observational consultation data to determine appropriateness of a variety of control assessment models. BMC Family Practice, 12, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-12-105
Background: Assessing asthma control using standardised questionnaires is recommended as good clinical practice but there is little evidence validating their use within primar...
Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature
Journal Article
Easton, P., Entwistle, V. A., & Williams, B. (2010)
Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature. BMC Public Health, 10, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-459
Background: Much of the evidence of an association between low functional or health literacy and poor health comes from studies that include people who have various cognitive ...
Health literacy: The need to consider images as well as words
Journal Article
Entwistle, V., & Williams, B. (2008)
Health literacy: The need to consider images as well as words. Health Expectations, 11, 99-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2008.00509.x
Editorial - no abstract available.
Cross-sectional survey of patients in receipt of long-term repeat prescriptions for antidepressant drugs in primary care
Journal Article
Cruickshank, G., MacGillivray, S., Bruce, D., Mather, A., Matthews, K., & Williams, B. (2008)
Cross-sectional survey of patients in receipt of long-term repeat prescriptions for antidepressant drugs in primary care. Mental Health in Family Medicine, 5(2), 105-109
This cross-sectional survey describes the clinical characteristics of 92 patients from across 12 general medical practices, in receipt of a long-term repeat prescription of an...
From child to adult: An exploration of shifting family roles and responsibilities in managing physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis
Journal Article
Williams, B., Mukhopadhyay, S., Dowell, J., & Coyle, J. (2007)
From child to adult: An exploration of shifting family roles and responsibilities in managing physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis. Social Science and Medicine, 65(10), 2135-2146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.020
Although chest physiotherapy is central to the management of cystic fibrosis many report problems with adherence. Research in other long-term conditions suggests that non-adhe...
Efficacy and tolerability of tricyclic antidepressants and SSRIs compared with placebo for treatment of depression in primary care: A meta-analysis
Journal Article
Arroll, B., Macgillivray, S., Ogston, S., Reid, I., Sullivan, F., Williams, B., & Crombie, I. (2005)
Efficacy and tolerability of tricyclic antidepressants and SSRIs compared with placebo for treatment of depression in primary care: A meta-analysis. Annals of Family Medicine, 3(5), 449-456. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.349
PURPOSE Depression is common in primary care. There are no systematic reviews of depression treatment comparing antidepressants with placebo; hence, we do not know whether the...