Studies of pain relief medications for osteoarthritis

A dataset containing results on the WOMAC pain scale (0-10) over time for studies investigating 29 treatments for pain relief in patients with osteoarthritis. Standard deviations have been imputed for 269 observations.

Usage

osteopain

Format

A data frame with 417 rows and 7 variables:

• studyID Study identifiers

• time Numeric data indicating follow-up times

• y Numeric data indicating the mean response for a given observation

• se Numeric data indicating the standard error for a given observation

• treatment Treatment identifiers as factors. Labels are shortened treatment names.

• arm Arm identifiers coded for each study

• treatname Character data giving the full names of each treatment

Source

Pfizer Ltd.

Details

osteopain is a data frame in long format (one row per observation, arm and study), with the variables studyID, time, y, se, treatment, arm and treatname.