Data frame containing the results of 26 trials comparing 17 treatments in 4 classes for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (Cooper et al. 2009) . The data are the corrected versions given by van Valkenhoef and Kuiper (2016) .
Format
A data frame with 63 rows and 11 variables:
- studyc
study name
- studyn
numeric study ID
- trtc
treatment name
- trtn
numeric treatment code
- trt_class
treatment class
- r
number of events
- n
sample size
- E
person-years at risk
- stroke
proportion of individuals with prior stroke
- year
year of study publication
- followup
mean length of follow-up (years)
References
Cooper NJ, Sutton AJ, Morris D, Ades AE, Welton NJ (2009).
“Addressing between-study heterogeneity and inconsistency in mixed treatment comparisons: Application to stroke prevention treatments in individuals with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation.”
Statistics in Medicine, 28(14), 1861--1881.
doi:10.1002/sim.3594
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van Valkenhoef G, Kuiper J (2016).
gemtc: Network Meta-Analysis Using Bayesian Methods.
R package version 0.8-2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gemtc.