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. A modified version of the data provided
by the rmeta package, excluding four small or uninformative studies.
Usage
data("catheter")
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 11 observations on the following 3 variables.
Source
Veenstra D et al (1998) "Efficacy of Antiseptic Impregnated
Central Venous Catheters in Preventing Nosocomial Infections: A
Meta-analysis" JAMA 281:261-267
Details
The Appavi, Pemberton, Logghe and Bach (a) studies are excluded.
The data here are produced from the source numerators and denominators using the
meta.MH method in rmeta.