wound: Soap or Saline: Which is better for cleaning wounds?

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Soap or Saline: Which is better for cleaning wounds?

Description

An experiment where patients' who had open wounds were cleaned with either soap or saline.

Usage

wound

Format

A data frame with 30 rows and 2 variables.

cleaning

The type of irrigation solution used to clean the wound.

outcome

If the patient required additional procedures due to infection of the wound.

Source

The FLOW Investigators. 2015. A Trial of Wound Irrigation in the Initial Management of Open Fracture Wounds. New England Journal of Medicine 373:2629-2641.

For an informal overview of the experiment and findings, see this United Press International article.

Examples

table(wound)

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