dat.henry {altmeta}

A Meta-Analysis for Evaluating the Effect of Tranexamic Acid on Perioperative Allogeneic Blood Transfusion

Description

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

Usage

data("dat.henry")

Format

A data frame containing 26 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 (tranexamic acid).

n11

counts of events in treatment group 1 (tranexamic acid).

Note

The original review collected 27 studies; one double-zero-counts study is excluded from this dataset because its odds ratio is not estimable.

Source

Henry DA, Carless PA, Moxey AJ, O'Connell, Stokes BJ, Fergusson DA, Ker K (2011). "Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, Art. No.: CD001886. <doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001886.pub3>