cirrhosis: Meta-analysis of treatments to prevent bleeding from...

cirrhosisR Documentation

Meta-analysis of treatments to prevent bleeding from cirrhosis.

Description

The data include the results from several clinical trials that examined one or two methods of preventing bleeding from cirrhosis.

Usage

cirrhosis

Format

A data frame with 54 observations and four variables.

study:

integer identifier for the study

treatment:

treatment condition (beta-blockers, sclerotherapy, or control group)

bleeding:

number of patients that showed bleeding

total:

total number of patients

Note

These data are originally from Pagliaro et al. (1992) and are also featured in Collett (2003).

Source

Pagliaro, L. et al. (1992). Prevention of first bleeding in cirrhosis: a meta-analysis of randomised trials of nonsurgical treatment. Annals of Internal Medicine, 117, 59-70.

Collett, D. (2003). Modelling binary data (2nd Edition). Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC.


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