Software Software
Arcus Statistical Package
(This 16 bit Windows statistical software has been largely superceded by StatsDirect)
This downloadable statistics package can be placed on a local machine and then used to calculate odds ratios, relative risk and other clinical measures such as Numbers Needed to Treat. It includes exact confidence intervals for all of these which is very rare. The package also includes calculation of pooled odds ratios using the Mantel-Haenszel or Woolf method. It is made available by Dr Iain Buchan, formerly of the Departments of Medicine and Primary Care, University of Liverpool. Arcus Biomedical for Windows is about to be launched. Details of the beta site can be obtained from Iain Buchan, now at Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.
CATmaker
"CATmaker is a software tool which helps you create Critically Appraised Topics, or CATs, for the key articles you encounter about Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Aetiology/Harm and Systematic Reviews of Therapy."
Clinical Decision making
University of Nottingham TLTP (Teaching & Learning Technology Programme) project which aims to provide a suite of CAL (Computer Aided Learning) programs that cover many diverse topics that all fall under the heading of Behavioural Sciences.This particular package covers the area of making decisions without bias in a clinical situation, using a mixture of animation, graphics, text and interaction. There are five sections:- Processes Affecting Decision Making, Assessing Performance Avoiding Bias In Decision Making, Rationalising Decision Making and Outcome Assessment.
RevMan
RevMan is the Cochrane Collaboration's own systematic review software for producing Cochrane-type reviews. Technical support is only provided to the members of the Cochrane Collaboration but the software is freely available from the Cochrane Collaboration web site.
StatsDirect
StatsDirect is a very easy to use, accurate and affordable statistical software. A special emphasis is placed upon Epidemiology and statistical methods for health research. Calculations employ state-of-the-art statistical and computational methods, and StatsDirect contains a statistical guide that supports learning, re-learning and scientific report writing with statistical knowledge.