Medical statistics

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Medical statistics is the field of medicine dealing with applications of statistics to the field of health and medicine.

The use of statistics in any field cannot be underestimated. Statistics is used in health to plan the usage of various health resources as well as evaluate the results of an ongoing health project.

Medical statistics forms an important curriculum in the field of students of health as well as mathematics.

Medical statistics is an important research as well as application field.

[edit] Applications

Medical statistics finds applications in the fields of public health, forensic medicine, as well as clinical sciences.

While the use of medical statistics in environmental health, public health, health services and forensic medicine is for the diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, in the clinical sciences and other fields of medicine, they are used as a research tool.

Medical statistics also provides an input in the development of algorithms used in the treatment of various conditions.

They help in the formulation of national health policies and keep track of the disbursing of health services availability.

Many medical machines use algorithms developed using medical statistics for the prediction of future outcomes of the patients monitored.

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