Hello,
I am medical student, writing a meta-analysis on complication and
reoperation rates after the five most common treatments of distal
radius fractures. I have been busy with the statistics for months by
my self, but find it quite hard since our classes were very basic.
Now I want to compare the treatment modalities to see if there are
significant differences. Using R I was able to synthesize the
complication rates and reoperation rates for each treatment method.
But I never had any R course and managed by trial and error, so the
code probably doesn't look that great. Someone told me I could best
model the data in one analysis using treatment as a five level
moderator in a meta-regression. Can some help me with the R code to
do this? Your help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Jay
Study| Event Type| Treatment| Number of Events (n)| N| n/N|
Kumaravel| Complications| EF| 3| 23| 0,1304348|
Franck| Complications| EF| 2| 20| 0,1|
Schonnemann| Complications| EF| 8| 30| 0,2666667|
Aita| Complications| EF| 1| 16| 0,0625|
Hove| Complications| EF| 31| 39| 0,7948718|
Andersen| Complications| EF| 26| 75| 0,3466667|
Krughaug| Complications| EF| 22| 75| 0,2933333|
Moroni| Complications| EF| 0| 20| 0|
Plate| Complications| IMN| 3| 30| 0,1|
Chappuis| Complications| IMN| 4| 16| 0,25|
Gradl| Complications| IMN| 12| 66| 0,1818182|
Schonnemann| Complications| IMN| 6| 31| 0,1935484|
Aita| Complications| IMN| 1| 16| 0,0625|
Dremstrop| Complications| IMN| 17| 44| 0,3863636|
Wong| Complications| PC| 1| 30| 0,0333333|
Kumaravel| Complications| PC| 4| 25| 0,16|
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library(meta)
library(stargazer)
library(foreign)
All <-read.spss("C:\\Users\\313635aa.STUDENT\\Desktop\\Meta-Analyse
Complications and Reoperations.sav",to.data.frame = T,
use.value.labels = T)
All <- na.omit(All)
Complications <- All[which(All[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
Re_operation <- All[which(All[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
EF <- All[which(All[,"Treatment"] == "EF"),]
IMN <- All[which(All[,"Treatment"] == "IMN"),]
pc <- All[which(All[,"Treatment"] == "PC"),]
KW <- All[which(All[,"Treatment"] == "KW"),]
VPO <- All[which(All[,"Treatment"] == "VPO"),]
EF_C <- EF[which(EF[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
EF_R <- EF[which(EF[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
IMN_C <- IMN[which(IMN[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
IMN_R <- IMN[which(IMN[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
pc_C <- pc[which(pc[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
pc_R <- pc[which(pc[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
KW_C <- KW[which(KW[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
KW_R <- KW[which(KW[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
VPO_C <- VPO[which(VPO[,"Event_Type"] == "Complications"),]
VPO_R <- VPO[which(VPO[,"Event_Type"] == "Reoperations"),]
Output <- function(x, y, k.min=10){
file <- metaprop(Events_n, N, Study_ID, data = x)
forest.meta(file, studlab = T, pooled.totals = T, bysort = F)
dev.copy2pdf(file=y, width = 11.69, height = 8.27)
print(file)
}
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