nmadb (version 1.2.0)

getNMADB: NMA catalog

Description

Petropoulou et al. compiled a database of network meta-analyses to serve as a source for empirical studies Petropoulou (2016). The database is hosted in a REDcap database at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) in the University of Bern. Function getNMADB downloads the list of networks included in Petropoulou (2016).

Usage

getNMADB()

Value

A data.frame with the network meta-analyses included in [1]. Several characterstics related to the publications (e.g. Journal.Name, Title) are included in the data.frame.

References

Petropoulou M, Nikolakopoulou A A, Veroniki A, Rios P, Vafaei A, Zarin W, Giannatsi M, Sullivan S, Tricco A C, Chaimani A, Egger M, Salanti G (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.11.002>.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
catalog = getNMADB()
# }
# NOT RUN {
  Networks that labeled Verified have outcome data 
  that allow the analysis to be repeated.
# }
# NOT RUN {
nmalist = catalog[catalog$Verified=="True",]
nmalist
# }