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[R-meta] Meta-Analisys whit events numbers, RR, OR and HR. It's possibe?

Dear Martin,


I am not sure whether I understand your last post. So you have a 
time-to-event outcome, right? Then the HR (hazard ratio) would be the 
preferred effect measure. However, the point is that there is no 
easy-to-use formula to simply calculate RRs or ORs as hazard ratios, 
because they describe different aspects. The preferred way to handle 
this is to obtain as many as possible information from the primary 
studies and to use methods as described in the papers I have recommended 
to you.

The papers might present 1-year (or 2-year or 5-year) survival rates, or 
numbers of observed vs expected events, or full Kaplan-Meier curves or 
tables. Sometimes it is possible to obtain almost IPD information from 
figures, thus it could be valuable to take these into account.


Best,

Gerta



Am 23.01.2021 um 19:14 schrieb Martin Lobo: