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Postoperative Infection Data.

Description

Data from a prospective study conducted at the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). A total of 2318 patients who underwent surgery at this center between January 1996 and March 1997 were characterized post-operatively, in respect of whether they suffered or not post-operative infection.

Usage

data(infect)

Format

A data frame with 2318 observations on the following 6 variables.

age

patient's age.

sex

patient's sex. Coded as 1 = Man and 2 = Woman.

linf

lymphocytes (expressed as relative counts (in %) of the white blood cell count)

gluc

plasma glucose concentration (measured in mg/dl)

diab

diabetes. Coded as 1 = presence and 2 = absence.

inf

variable indicating whether the patient suffered (inf = 1) or not (inf = 0) a post-operative infection.

Examples

data(infect)
summary(infect)