| catheter(rmeta) | R Documentation |
data(catheter)
A data.frame with 8 variables giving information about 16 controlled trials of antibacterial-coated venous catheters
| Name : | Name of principal author |
| n.trt : | number of coated catheters |
| n.ctrl : | number of standard catheters |
| col.trt : | number of coated catheters colonised |
| by bacteria | |
| col.ctrl : | number of standard catheters colonised |
| by bacteria | |
| inf.trt : | number of coated catheters resulting in |
| bloodstream infection | |
| inf.ctrl : | number of standard catheters resulting in |
| bloodstream infection | |
| or : | Odds ratio |
Veenstra D et al (1998) "Efficacy of Antiseptic Impregnated Central Venous Catheters in Preventing Nosocomial Infections: A Meta-analysis" JAMA 281:261-267
library(rmeta) data(catheter) a<-meta.MH(n.trt,n.ctrl,col.trt,col.ctrl,data=catheter,names=Name,subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2)) b<-meta.DSL(n.trt,n.ctrl,col.trt,col.ctrl,data=catheter,names=Name,subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2)) a b summary(a) summary(b) plot(a) plot(b)