parkinson {pcnetmeta}

Network Meta-Ananlysis on Parkinson's Disease

Description

An example of network meta-analysis for continuous outcomes.

Usage

data("parkinson")

Format

A data frame containing 7 studies which compare 5 treatments.

s.id

a numeric vector of study IDs.

t.id

a numeric vector of treatment IDs.

mean

a numeric vector of the mean of continuous outcomes in each treatment group in each study.

sd

a numeric vector of the standard deviance of continuous outcomes in each treatment group in each study.

n

a numeric vector of the total number of participants in each treatment group in each study.

Details

The continuous outcome measures the off-time reduction in patients given dopamine agonists as adjunct therapy in Parkinson's disease. Treatment 1 is placebo and treatments 2 to 5 are active drugs.

Source

Dias S, Sutton AJ, Ades AE, Welton NJ (2013). "Evidence synthesis for decision making 2: a generalized linear modeling framework for pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials." Medical Decision Making, 33(5), 607–617. <doi: 10.1177/0272989X12458724>