Moore1998: NSAIDS in acute pain
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Moore1998

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NSAIDS in acute pain

Description

Meta-analysis on the effectiveness of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) in acute pain.

Treatment success is defined as a reduction in pain of at least 50%.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

*study*	study number
*succ.e*	number of treatment successes in NSAIDS group
*nobs.e*	number of patients in NSAIDS group
*succ.c*	number of treatment successes in control group
*nobs.c*	number of patients in control group

Source

Moore RA, Tramer MR, Carroll D, Wiffen PJ, McQuay HJ (1998): Quantitive systematic review of topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. British Medical Journal, 316, 333–8

Examples

data(Moore1998)
m1 <- metabin(succ.e, nobs.e, succ.c, nobs.c,
              data = Moore1998, sm = "OR", method = "Inverse")

print(limitmeta(m1), digits = 2)

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