Using and Understanding Medical Statistics

Using and understanding medical statistics: 5th, revised and extended edition

Teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

introduction: in india, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficult to understand. often, it is taught just before final assessment examination using didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus on application. hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teaching biostatistics to medical undergraduate. methods: the sessions were delivered by...

Advanced statistics: understanding medical record review (MRR) studies.

Medical record review (MRR) studies have been reported to make up 25% of all scientific studies published in emergency medical (EM) journals. However, unlike other study designs, there are no standards for reporting MRRs and very little literature on the methodology for conducting them. The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with methodological guidance regarding the strengths and...

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...