Aslib Proceedings: Volume 38 Issue 5

Statistics for the economics of health care

Nicholas Wells

Statistics for the economics of health care encompasses three enormous subject areas in their own right. In order to make my task more manageable, I have decided not to say very…

Problems in using medical statistics

Alison Macfarlane

I work at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit which is a Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) funded multidisciplinary research unit. We have a strong view that…

How the OPCS Library can help

Suzanne Burge

This paper is in two parts, the first describes the range of OPCS publications and the second the services which the Library can (and cannot) provide.

Handling statistical enquiries in the medical library — some practical examples

Howard Hague

Every library school student knows that statistics — like conference proceedings and technical reports — belong to that category of material called ‘difficult literature’. It is…