Data from randomised trials before 1980 of corticosteroid therapy in premature
labour and its effect on neonatal death.
Usage
data(cochrane)
Arguments
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
name
Identifier for the study
ev.trt
Number of deaths in the treated group
n.trt
Number in the treated group
ev.ctrl
Number of deaths in the control group
n.ctrl
Number in the control group
Details
This meta-analysis, if done, would likely have resulted in the treatment being
widely used a decade earlier than it was, saving many lives. The graph
is part of the logo of the Cochrane Collaboration, a group aiming to
perform systematic reviews of the entire clinical trial literature.