Baker2009: Network meta-analysis of pharmacologic treatments for chronic...

Baker2009R Documentation

Network meta-analysis of pharmacologic treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Description

This dataset comes from a systematic review of randomized controlled trials on pharmacologic treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Baker et al., 2009).

The primary outcome, occurrence of one or more episodes of COPD exacerbation, is binary (yes / no). For this outcome, five drug treatments (fluticasone, budesonide, salmeterol, formoterol, tiotropium) and two combinations (fluticasone + salmeterol, budesonide + formoterol) were compared to placebo. The authors considered the two combinations as separate treatments instead of evaluating the individual components.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study study label
year year of publication
id study ID
treatment treatment
exac one or more episodes of COPD exacerbation
total number of individuals in treatment arm

Note

The dataset Baker2009 is identical to dataset dat.baker2009 in R package metadat.

Source

Baker WL, Baker EL, Coleman CI (2009): Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Mixed-Treatment Comparison Meta-analysis. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 29, 891–905

See Also

dat.baker2009, pairwise, metabin, netmeta, netcomb

Examples

head(dat.baker2009)

# Example using pairwise(), netmeta() and netcomb():
# example(dat.baker2009, run.dontrun = TRUE)

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