C.P. Elliott-Binns's scientific contributions

Publications (3)

Article
Five hundred patients were asked what advice they had received before attending the doctor's surgery. The results were analysed and compared with an identical survey carried out in 1970. There have been few changes in the frequency and nature of lay advice over the last 15 years, with women still being the chief source of informal advice; the advic...

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... A considerable number of consultations with general practitioners are for conditions that are potentially self-treatable (Morris et al., 2001). Older studies have concluded that~85-96% of acute minor illnesses are treated at home (Elliott-Binns, 1973;1986;Green, 1990), thus the majority of care is self-provided. ...