netmeta (version 0.9-5)

Woods2010: Count statistics of survival data

Description

Count mortality statistics in randomised controlled trials of treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Woods et al. (2010), Table 1).

Usage

data(Woods2010)

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

author

First author / study name

treatment

Treatment

r

Number of deaths in treatment arm

N

Number of patients in treatment arm

See Also

pairwise, metabin, netmeta

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(Woods2010)

# Transform data from long arm-based format to contrast-based format
# Argument 'sm' has to be used for odds ratio as summary measure; by
# default the risk ratio is used in the metabin function called
# internally.
p1 <- pairwise(treatment, event = r, n = N,
               studlab = author, data = Woods2010, sm = "OR")
p1

# Conduct network meta-analysis
net1 <- netmeta(p1)
net1

# Show forest plot
forest(net1, ref = "Placebo", drop = TRUE,
       leftlabs = "Contrast to Placebo")
# }