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The rmeta Package May 15, 2001 R topics documented: catheter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 cochrane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 funnelplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 meta.DSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 meta.MH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 meta.colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 meta.summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 metaplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 catheter Meta-analysis of antibacterial catheter coating Description Data on the effectiveness of silver sulfadiazine coating on venous catheters for preventing bacterial colonisation of the catheter and bloodstream infection Usage data(catheter) Format A data.frame with 8 variables giving information about 16 controlled trials of antibacterial- coated venous catheters Name : Name of principal author n.trt : number of coated catheters n.ctrl : number of standard catheters col.trt : number of coated catheters colonised by bacteria col.ctrl : number of standard catheters colonised by bacteria inf.trt : number of coated catheters resulting in bloodstream infection inf.ctrl : number of standard catheters resulting in bloodstream infection or : Odds ratio 1 2 cochrane Source Veenstra D et al (1998) ”Efficacy of Antiseptic Impregnated Central Venous Catheters in Preventing Nosocomial Infections: A Meta-analysis” JAMA 281:261-267 Examples library(rmeta) data(catheter) a-meta.MH(n.trt,n.ctrl,col.trt,col.ctrl,data=catheter,names=Name,subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2)) b-meta.DSL(n.trt,n.ctrl,col.trt,col.ctrl,data=catheter,names=Name,subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2)) a b summary(a) summary(b) p