df.SMD {metaumbrella}

Meta-analyses exploring the efficacy of surgical and pharmacological interventions.

Description

Fictitious dataset of two meta-analyses of RCTs assessing the efficacy of surgical and pharmacological interventions on a numeric outcome.

Usage

df.SMD

Format

The dataset contains the following variables:

meta_review	name of the first author of the meta-analysis.
factor	name of the intervention studied.
author	first study author of the individual studies.
year	year of publication of the individual studies.
measure	type of effect size (SMD).
value	SMD value.
se	standard error of the SMD.
ci_lo	lower bound of the 95% confidence interval.
ci_up	upper bound of the 95% confidence interval.
mean_cases	means of patients in the experimental arm.
mean_controls	means of patients in the control arm.
sd_cases	standard deviations of patients in the experimental arm.
sd_controls	standard deviations of patients in the control arm.
n_cases	number of patients in the experimental arm.
n_controls	number of patients in the control arm.
rob	risk of bias of the individual studies.
amstar	AMSTAR score of the meta-analysis.

Source

No source, the data are entirely fictitious