rmeta (version 3.0)

catheter: Meta-analysis of antibacterial catheter coating

Description

Data on the effectiveness of silver sulfadiazine coating on venous catheters for preventing bacterial colonisation of the catheter and bloodstream infection

Usage

data(catheter)

Arguments

Format

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

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
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)
# }

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