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ASSIST Trial Data from Yudkin and Moher 2001
Description
The ASSIST Trial baseline data from Yudkin and Moher 2001 consist of 21 general practices containing 2142 patients used for the design of a randomized trial which assigned to three treatments aiming to compare methods of preventing coronary heart disease. This data frame is aggregated to the practice level. We added a simulated randomized treatment variable.
Usage
ym_short
Format
A data frame with 21 rows and 8 columns
practice: Identifier for the practice
n_practice: Number of patients with CHD in the practice
assessed: Whether a patient was coded as "adequately assessed" (the outcome of the study, measured here at baseline).
aspirin: Whether a patient was treated with aspirin at baseline.
hypo: Whether a patient was treated with hypotensives at baseline.
lipid: Whether patient was treated with lipid-lowering drugs at baseline.
assess_strata: Strata of the practice defined by the proportion of people adequately assessed at baseline (three strata, following Yudkin and Moher 2001).
trt: A simulated binary treatment, assigned at random at the practice level within levels of assess_strata.
Source
The data come from Table II on page 345 of Yudkin and Moher 2001, Statistics in Medicine.
References
Yudkin, P. L. and Moher, M. 2001. "Putting theory into practice: a cluster randomized trial with a small number of clusters" Statistics in Medicine, 20:341-349.