Data frame containing the results of 12 trials comparing 7 treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, analysed in (Dias et al. 2011) .
Format
A data frame with 24 rows and 5 variables:
- study
study name
- trt
treatment name
- r
number of patients achieving ACR50 at 6 months
- n
sample size
- disease_duration
mean disease duration in years
References
Dias S, Sutton AJ, Welton NJ, Ades AE (2011). “NICE DSU Technical Support Document 3: Heterogeneity: subgroups, meta-regression, bias and bias-adjustment.” National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu.