respiratory_infections_df: Azithromycin for Respiratory Infections

In PulmoDataSets: A Curated Collection of Pulmonary and Respiratory Disease Datasets

Azithromycin for Respiratory Infections

Description

This dataset, respiratory_infections_df, is a data frame containing results from 15 clinical trials comparing the effectiveness of azithromycin versus amoxycillin or amoxycillin/clavulanic acid (amoxyclav) in the treatment of acute lower respiratory tract infections.

Usage

data(respiratory_infections_df)

Format

A data frame with 15 observations and 11 variables:

author

Study author(s) (character vector)

year

Year of publication (integer vector)

ai

Number of successful treatments in azithromycin group (integer vector)

n1i

Total number of participants in azithromycin group (integer vector)

ci

Number of successful treatments in control group (integer vector)

n2i

Total number of participants in control group (integer vector)

age

Patient age characteristics (character vector)

diag.ab

Number diagnosed with acute bronchitis (integer vector)

diag.cb

Number diagnosed with chronic bronchitis (integer vector)

diag.pn

Number diagnosed with pneumonia (integer vector)

ctrl

Type of control treatment (character vector)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'respiratory_infections_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data taken from the metadat package version 1.4-0

PulmoDataSets documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:41 p.m.