Studies on Acupoint P6 Stimulation for Preventing Nausea
Results from studies examining the effectiveness of wrist acupuncture point P6 stimulation for preventing postoperative nausea.
dat.lee2004
The data frame contains the following columns:
| id | numeric |
trial id number |
| study | character |
first author |
| year | numeric |
study year |
| ai | numeric |
number of patients experiencing nausea in the treatment group |
| n1i | numeric |
total number of patients in treatment group |
| ci | numeric |
number of patients experiencing nausea in the sham group |
| n2i | numeric |
total number of patients in the sham group |
Postoperative nausea and vomiting are common complications following surgery and anaesthesia. As an alternative to drug therapy, acupuncture has been studied as a potential treatment in several trials. The dataset contains the results from 16 clinical trials examining the effectiveness of wrist acupuncture point P6 stimulation for preventing postoperative nausea.
Lee, A., & Done, M. L. (2004). Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, CD003281.
### copy data into 'dat' and examine data dat <- dat.lee2004 dat ### meta-analysis based on log risk ratios res <- rma(measure="RR", ai=ai, n1i=n1i, ci=ci, n2i=n2i, data=dat) res predict(res, transf=exp, digits=2)
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