dat.ducharme {altmeta}

A Meta-Analysis on the Effect of Long-Acting Inhaled Beta2-Agonists vs. Control for Chronic Asthma

Description

This meta-analysis serves as an example of meta-analysis with binary outcomes.

Usage

data("dat.ducharme")

Format

A data frame containing 33 studies with the following 4 variables within each study.

n00

counts of non-events in treatment group 0 (placebo).

n01

counts of events in treatment group 0 (placebo).

n10

counts of non-events in treatment group 1 (beta2-agonists).

n11

counts of events in treatment group 1 (beta2-agonists).

Note

The original review collected 35 studies; two double-zero-counts studies are excluded from this dataset because their odds ratios are not estimable.

Source

Ducharme FM, Ni Chroinin M, Greenstone I, Lasserson TJ (2010). "Addition of long-acting beta2-agonists to inhaled corticosteroids versus same dose inhaled corticosteroids for chronic asthma in adults and children." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 5, Art. No.: CD005535. <doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005535.pub2>