ssi_closure: Studies of wound closure methods to reduce Surgical Site...

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Studies of wound closure methods to reduce Surgical Site Infections (SSI)

Description

A dataset from an ongoing systematic review examining the efficacy of different wound closure methods to reduce surgical site infections (SSI). The outcome is binary and represents the number of patients who experienced a SSI. The dataset includes 129 RCTs comparing 16 different interventions in 6 classes. This dataset is primarily used to illustrate how MBNMAdose can be used to perform different types of network meta-analysis without dose-response information.

Usage

ssi_closure

Format

A data frame in long format (one row per arm and study), with 281 rows and 6 variables:

• studyID Study identifiers

• Year Year of publication

• n Numeric data indicating the number of participants randomised

• r Numeric data indicating the number of participants who achieved >50% improvement in depression symptoms

• trt Treatment names, given as character data

• class Class names, given as character data

MBNMAdose documentation built on Aug. 8, 2023, 5:11 p.m.