Re: Computer advice needed for medical research project

["Caotri Nguyen" <caotri@axis.jeack.com.au>]

If you are familiar with windows enviroment, Microsoft acces if good for
doing your work, I think.


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> From: huy.duong@ctsu.ox.ac.uk
> To: Multiple recipients of list <vnsa-l@csd.uwm.edu>
> Subject: Computer advice needed for medical research project
> Date: Monday, April 21, 1997 11:15 PM
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> In the Red River Delta, 90% of children are infected by intestinal worms.
> Intestinal worms may adversely affect development. Primary school
children are 
> infected most severely. Primary school children are also at crucial
stages in 
> their physical, mental and educational developments.
> 
> The Partnership for Child Development at Oxford University is setting
> up medical trial to measure the benefits of killing intestinal worms
> and educational measures in school children in the Red River Delta.
> This trial will need to store data on age, height, weight, the level of
> some nutrients in blood, scores of cognitive tests, time to re-infection,
> etc, for children in either 100 schools (consisting of 80,000 children)
or 100 
> sub-district (consisting of 800,000) children. The data is to be analysed
by SAS 
> or SPSS.
> 
> Computer experts, what hardware, software and personel would you
recommend
> for data entry and maintenance?
> 
> Also, if a health institute in Hanoi (the one that is running the vitamin
A and 
> iodine programme) gives, say, worm medicine to some schools, a vitamin to

> some others, worm medicine + vitamin to the rest, do the schools
> have the ability and the will to administer the stuff or to the children?
> If the schools are in the same sub-district, will the sub-distric
authority or 
> school demand that all get the worm medicine or all get the vitamin?    
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Huy
> 
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