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Brian Williams
Researcher at Edinburgh Napier University
Publications - 159
Citations - 8704
Brian Williams is an academic researcher from Edinburgh Napier University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 147 publications receiving 7656 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian Williams include Ninewells Hospital & North Wales Hospital.
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Patient satisfaction: a valid concept?
TL;DR: It is suggested that patients may have a complex set of important and relevant beliefs which cannot be embodied in terms of expressions of satisfaction and many satisfaction surveys provide only an illusion of consumerism producing results which tend only to endorse the status quo.
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The meaning of patient satisfaction : An explanation of high reported levels
TL;DR: Whether and how service users evaluate services is identified through unstructured in-depth interviews with users of mental health services and through more structured discussion around their responses on a patient satisfaction questionnaire (CSQ 18B) whose psychometric properties has been well documented.
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Why older people do not participate in leisure time physical activity: a survey of activity levels, beliefs and deterrents
Iain K. Crombie,Linda Irvine,Brian Williams,Alison R. McGinnis,Peter W Slane,Elizabeth M. Alder,Marion E. T. McMurdo +6 more
TL;DR: Why older people are reluctant to participate in leisure time physical activity is investigated and strategies to encourage increased activity are identified to relieve physical symptoms and address fears about perceived ability to undertake physical activity are addressed.
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An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research
Trisha Greenhalgh,Ellen Annandale,Richard Ashcroft,James Barlow,Nick Black,Alan Bleakley,Ruth Boaden,Jeffrey Braithwaite,Nicky Britten,Franco A. Carnevale,Katherine Checkland,Julianne Cheek,Alexander M. Clark,Simon Cohn,Jack Coulehan,Benjamin F. Crabtree,Steven Cummins,Frank Davidoff,Huw Davies,Robert Dingwall,Mary Dixon-Woods,Glyn Elwyn,Eivind Engebretsen,Ewan Ferlie,Naomi Fulop,John Gabbay,Marie-Pierre Gagnon,Dariusz Galasiński,Ruth Garside,Lucy Gilson,Peter Griffiths,Penny Hawe,Jan-Kees Helderman,Brian Hodges,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Margaret H. Kearney,Celia Kitzinger,Jenny Kitzinger,Ayelet Kuper,Saville Kushner,Andrée le May,Lorelei Lingard,Louise Locock,Jill Maben,Mary Ellen Macdonald,Frances S. Mair,Russell Mannion,Martin Marshall,Carl May,Nicholas Mays,Lorna McKee,Marissa Miraldo,Marissa Miraldo,David G. Morgan,Janice M. Morse,Sarah Nettleton,Sandy Oliver,Warrren Pearce,Pierre Pluye,Catherine Pope,Glenn Robert,Celia Roberts,Stefania Rodella,Jo Rycroft-Malone,Margarete Sandelowski,Paul G. Shekelle,Fiona Stevenson,Sharon E. Straus,Deborah Swinglehurst,Sally Thorne,Göran Tomson,Gerd Westert,Sue Wilkinson,Brian Williams,Terry Young,Sue Ziebland +76 more
TL;DR: Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ ’s editors to reconsider their policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority.
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Efficacy and tolerability of tricyclic antidepressants and SSRIs compared with placebo for treatment of depression in primary care: a meta-analysis.
Bruce Arroll,Steve MacGillivray,Simon Ogston,Ian C. Reid,Frank Sullivan,Brian Williams,Iain K. Crombie +6 more
TL;DR: This systematic review is the first comparing antidepressants with placebo for treatment of depression in primary care and it is also the first to show that low-dose TCAs are effective inPrimary care.