A family medicine research library

A family medicine research library can be a useful tool for conducting and teaching research methodology and data analysis. This paper lists 100 research books for family medicine collected from a questionnaire given to participants at the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual meeting and a panel of experts in epidemiology and biostatistics. The areas (and number of books) include: general epidemiology (12), case control studies (3), clinical trials (3), experimental design (6), surveys (6), sampling and subject recruitment (5), measurement, scales and indices (10), family assessment and measurement (3), writing, publishing and presenting research (5), reading and reviewing the literature (5), statistics (19), coding and classification (5), and other books (18). Acquisition of a research library can facilitate family medicine research.