Event counts by trial and corticosteroid subgroup from the WHO REACT
prospective meta-analysis of IL-6 antagonists in patients hospitalized
for COVID-19. Some trials report only one corticosteroid subgroup
(n = 0 patients in the other subgroup); drop those empty rows before escalc() and
let ifrac() / cams() complete the missing cells. See
vignette("worked-examples").
Usage
data(il6)Format
A data frame with 30 rows and 7 variables:
- study
Study identifier.
- subgroup
Corticosteroid subgroup (
yes/no).- n
Total patients (
treat.total+cont.total).- treat.events
Events in the treatment arm.
- treat.total
Total subjects in the treatment arm.
- cont.events
Events in the control arm.
- cont.total
Total subjects in the control arm.
Source
WHO Rapid Evidence Appraisal for COVID-19 Therapies (REACT) Working Group, Sterne JAC, Murthy S, et al. (2021). Association between administration of IL-6 antagonists and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: a meta-analysis. JAMA, 326(6), 499–518. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.11330