getNMADB: NMA catalog

In nmadb: Network Meta-Analysis Database API

Description

Petropoulou et al. compiled a database of network meta-analyses to serve as a source for empirical studies Petropoulou (2016). The database is hosted in a REDcap database at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) in the University of Bern. Function getNMADB downloads the list of networks included in Petropoulou (2016).

Usage

getNMADB()

Value

A data.frame with the network meta-analyses included in [1]. Several characterstics related to the publications (e.g. Journal.Name, Title) are included in the data.frame.

References

Petropoulou M, Nikolakopoulou A A, Veroniki A, Rios P, Vafaei A, Zarin W, Giannatsi M, Sullivan S, Tricco A C, Chaimani A, Egger M, Salanti G (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.11.002>.

Examples

catalog = getNMADB()
## Not run: 
  Networks that labeled Verified have outcome data 
  that allow the analysis to be repeated.

## End(Not run)
nmalist = catalog[catalog$Verified=="True",]
nmalist

nmadb documentation built on Dec. 19, 2019, 5:07 p.m.