EPIDURALF {PASWR2}R Documentation

Traditional Sitting Position Versus Hamstring Stretch Position

Description

Intermediate results from a study to determine whether the traditional sitting position or the hamstring stretch position is superior for administering epidural anesthesia to pregnant women in labor as measured by the number of obstructive (needle to bone) contacts (oc)

Usage

EPIDURALF

Format

A data frame with 342 observations on the following 7 variables:

Source

Fisher, K. S., Arnholt, A. T., Douglas, M. E., Vandiver, S. L., Nguyen, D. H. 2009. “A Randomized Trial of the Traditional Sitting Position Versus the Hamstring Stretch Position for Labor Epidural Needle Placement.” Journal of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol 109, No. 2: 532-534.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

ggplot(data = EPIDURALF, aes(x = treatment, y = oc, fill = treatment)) +
 geom_boxplot() + guides(fill = "none") + scale_fill_brewer() + 
 labs(y = "number of obstructive contacts")

[Package PASWR2 version 1.0.5 Index]