Studies of combined treatments for reducing serum uric acid in patients with gout
goutSUA_CFBcomb.Rd
A dataset from a systematic review of interventions for lowering Serum Uric Acid (SUA) concentration in patients with gout (not published previously). The outcome is continuous, and aggregate data responses correspond to the mean change from baseline in SUA in mg/dL. Treatments with similar doses have been pooled together to improve network connectivity and facilitate evidence synthesis, resulting in 19 treatments of 7 agents included in the network. Standard deviations have been imputed for 181 observations.
Format
A data frame with 224 rows and 7 variables:
studyID
Study identifierstime
Numeric data indicating follow-up timesy
Numeric data indicating the mean response for a given observationse
Numeric data indicating the standard error for a given observationtreatment
Treatment identifiers as factors. Labels are shortened treatment names.treatname
Character data giving the full names of each treatment in the format agent_doseclass
Shortened agent names stored as factors.