Dear All,

 

Thank you for your replies to my recent request for books and software that would help NHS staff doing statistics. 

 

If you sent me sites that give you actual morbidity and mortality statistics, thank you, and my apologies for not making myself clearer!

 

Here is a summary of the suggestions made for books and statistics. 

 

Books:

 

A good starting place is the “Statistics for the non-statistician” chapter in Trisha Greenhalgh’s “How to read a paper”.

 

Other introductory books are:

 

Campbell, M.J. and Swinscow, T.D.V., 2009, Statistics at square one, 11th edn, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.  

 

Campbell, M.J., 2006, Statistics at square two : understanding modern statistical applications in medicine, 2nd edn, Blackwell, Oxford.  

 

Harris, M. & Taylor, G. 2014, Medical statistics made easy, 3rd edn, Scion, Banbury, Ox.  

 

Salkind, N.J., 2011, Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics. 4th edn. SAGE, London.

 

More detailed books are:

 

Bland, M., 2015, An introduction to medical statistics, 4^th edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

Heavey, E. 2015, Statistics for nursing; a practical approach, 2nd edn, Jones and Bartlett Learning, Burlington.    

 

Petrie, A. 2009, Medical statistics at a glance, 3rd edn, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.

 

There is information on the statistical techniques used in systematic reviews in the Cochrane Handbook, http://handbook.cochrane.org/ and in the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination’s guidance, https://www.york.ac.uk/crd/guidance/.   

Nursing calculations books may be useful:

 

Gatford, J.D. and Phillips, N., 2011, Nursing calculations. 8th edn. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.

 

Hutton, M., 2009, Essential calculation skills for nurses, midwives and healthcare practitioners. Open University Press, Maidenhead.

 

Lapham, R. and Agar, H., 2009, Drug calculations for nurses : a step-by-step approach. 3rd edn. Hodder Arnold, London.

 

Software:

 

OpenEpi is free open source online (or downloadable) software for epidemiological statistics. Clear examples, online calculators etc. (http://www.openepi.com/)

 

KT Clearinghouse online statistical tools (http://ktclearinghouse.ca/cebm/toolbox)

 

People mentioned StatsDirect, which is a subscription resource, but a free trial may do the trick. 

 

The Cochrane Collaboration’s RevMan software does some statistical operations. 

 

Other free packages are:

R (www.r-project.org ),

 

OpenStat (https://openstat.en.softonic.com/),

 

And SISA (http://www.quantitativeskills.com/sisa/) will perform certain specific tests online. 

 

Excel and OpenOffice Calc are spreadsheet packages that will perform some statistical operations.

 

Use of some of the free software is discussed in Statistics at square one (see above).

 

Last of all, worth mentioning again that it is worth finding out what your local universities can offer to your folk who might be students.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith

 

 

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Dear All,

 

This is a question for NHS libraries, or libraries serving NHS staff.    I have sent it to lis-medical and lis-nursing so you might get it twice.

 

Are you asked by NHS staff for help or advice on statistics or statistical software?

 

We are, and there is no single source of help in the Trust.  So, I am trying to compile a resource list.   I’m interested to know if there are any free online resources that you’d recommend, or useful books.  Or anything available within the NHS in England.

 

I have checked eLearning for Health.   I also know what local universities can for our folk who are also students or university staff. 

 

Thanks for your help.   I will summarise for the list. 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith