Moore1998 {metasens}

NSAIDS in acute pain

Description

Meta-analysis on the effectiveness of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) in acute pain.

Treatment success is defined as a reduction in pain of at least 50%.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study	study number
succ.e	number of treatment successes in NSAIDS group
nobs.e	number of patients in NSAIDS group
succ.c	number of treatment successes in control group
nobs.c	number of patients in control group

Source

Moore RA, Tramer MR, Carroll D, Wiffen PJ, McQuay HJ (1998): Quantitive systematic review of topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. British Medical Journal, 316, 333–8

Examples

data(Moore1998)
m1 <- metabin(succ.e, nobs.e, succ.c, nobs.c,
              data = Moore1998, sm = "OR", method = "Inverse")

print(limitmeta(m1), digits = 2)