rhc: Right Heart Catheterization Dataset

Description Usage Format Source

Description

This dataset was used in Connors et al. (1996): The effectiveness of RHC in the initial care of critically #' ill patients. J American Medical Association 276:889-897. The dataset pertains to day 1 of hospitalizatio#' n, i.e., the 'treatment' variable swang1 is whether or not a patient received a RHC (also called the Swan #'-Ganz catheter) on the first day in which the patient qualified for the SUPPORT study (see above)

Usage

1

Format

A data frame with 5735 rows and 63 variables:

Age

Age, in years

Sex

Sex at birth

Income

Yearly Income, in dollars

meta

Metabolic Diagnostic

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Source

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/rhc.html


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