Dopamine Agonists as Adjunct Therapy in Parkinson’s

This dataset, parkinsons_dopamine_list, is a list containing information from 7 studies investigating the mean lost work-time reduction in patients given 4 dopamine agonists and placebo as adjunct therapy for Parkinson's disease. There is placebo and four active drugs coded 2 to 5.

Usage

data(parkinsons_dopamine_list)

Format

A list with 5 components:

Outcomes

Numeric vector containing the outcomes (mean lost work-time reduction)

SE

Numeric vector containing standard errors for the outcomes

Treat

Character vector indicating the treatment (placebo or drug codes 2-5)

Study

Numeric vector indicating the study number (1-7)

Treat.order

Character vector showing the treatment order (placebo and drugs 2-5)

Source

Data taken from the bnma package version 1.6.0.

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'parkinsons_dopamine_list' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'list' indicates that the dataset is a list. The original content has not been modified in any way.