Granulocyte transfusion in patients with neutropenia or neutrophil dysfunction

Data frame containing the number of deaths in 6 trials comparing transfusion of granulocytes (white blood cells) to control (Stanworth et al. 2005) . Previously used to demonstrate informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity variance by Turner et al. (2012) .

Usage

transfusion

Format

A data frame with 12 rows and 4 variables:

studyc

study name

trtc

treatment name

r

total number of deaths

n

total number of individuals

References

Stanworth S, Massey E, Hyde C, Brunskill SJ, Navarette C, Lucas G, Marks D, Paulus U (2005). “Granulocyte transfusions for treating infections in patients with neutropenia or neutrophil dysfunction.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. ISSN 1465-1858, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD005339 .

Turner RM, Davey J, Clarke MJ, Thompson SG, Higgins JPT (2012). “Predicting the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, using empirical data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.” International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(3), 818–827. doi:10.1093/ije/dys041 .