NSAIDS in acute pain

Description

Meta-analysis on the effectiveness of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) in acute pain

Usage

data(nsaids)

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study

study number

Ee

number of treatment successes (reduction in pain of at least 50%) in NSAIDS group

Ne

number of patients in NSAIDS group

Ec

number of treatment successes in control group

Nc

number of patients in control group

Source

Moore RA, Tramer MR, Carroll D, Wiffen PJ, McQuay HJ (1998), Quantitive systematic review of topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. British Medical Journal, 316, 333–338.

Examples

data(nsaids)
m1 <- metabin(Ee, Ne, Ec, Nc,
              data=nsaids, sm="OR", method="Inverse")

print(limitmeta(m1), digits=2)

Results