Welcome to PRIMSTAT
PRIMSTAT is an e-mail list for UK based medical statisticians particularly
interested in or involved in primary care. The list is operated and
maintained by Sandra Eldridge at St Barts and the London, Queen Mary's
School of Medicine and Dentistry who is the main list owner. Other list
owners are Kerry Hood at Cardiff, Sally Kerry at St George's Hospital
Medical School, and Mike Campbell at Sheffield. The list operates under the
umbrella of JISCmail (www.JISCmail.ac.uk).
PRIMSTAT is intended as a vehicle for medical statisticians with an interest
in primary care to share with each other. It has been set up primarily as a
discussion list. It is hoped that members will support each other by sharing
ideas/methodology/ etc. in areas which are more pertinent to primary care
than other areas of medical statistics and offering particular support to
those beginning to work in this area for the first time.
The list was set up in April 2001 by Sandra Eldridge on behalf of a small
group of statisticians involved in primary care. We wanted to form a wider
network of such statisticians. It is not intended to replace the functions
of other more general lists such as ALLSTAT. Some of the guidelines for use
set out below make this clear.
Guidelines for use:
1. Use the list for queries, suggestions, discussing ideas
2. Be sure that PRIMSTAT is an appropriate forum for your message (which
should be specifically relevant to issues in primary care)
3. Send text in the body of your message (no attachments please)
4. Use a sensible header, eg QUERY:. IDEA:.. EVENT:. etc.
5. Do not send general job or conference advertisements to the list (most
people subscribing to the list will be members of ALLSTAT or get notices of
jobs and conferences through other channels)
6. Use the list for notifying members of events and publications (including
books) ONLY when these may be of particular interest to those working in
primary care
7. No commercial advertising
8. When replying to something somebody else has e-mailed to the list, it is
up to you to decide whether to reply to the individual or the list. Reply
only to the list if you think your reply will be of interest to a majority
of members.
To contact the list owner, send messages to [log in to unmask]
To join or leave the list:
1. Go to the web page www.JISCmail.ac.uk
2. Click P under Browse Alphabetically
3. Scroll down until you find primstat
4. Click on primstat
5. Click on join or leave the JISCmail list and follow instructions
(Leave the subscription type, mail header style, acknowledgements etc. as
default unless you are sure you want something different like a digest)
To send messages to the list, send your message (in plain text only, no
attachments) to [log in to unmask]
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Sandra Eldridge
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Royal London & St Barts School of Medicine & Dentistry
Medical Sciences
Mile End
London E1 4NS
tel: 020 7882 7920
fax: 020 7882 6396
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