Topical fluoride interventions for preventing dental caries

A dataset of 130 trials comparing different forms of topical fluoride interventions for preventing dental caries in children or adolescents with at least 1 year or school year. The analysed continuous outcome is the change from baseline in decayed, missing, and filled tooth surfaces. The dataset contains also multi-arm trials.

Usage

data(nma.fluoride.donegan2018)

Format

A data frame with 140 rows of arm-based data and 16 columns referring to the trial number, the treatment identifier in the compared arms, the standardised mean difference and its standard error for each trial and possible comparison (in the case of multi-arm trial), the randomisation year, the standard deviation and number randomised for each arm and trial, the pooled standard deviation and the within-study covariance in multi-arm trials.

Source

Donegan S, Dias S, Tudur-Smith C, Marinho V, Welton NJ. Graphs of study contributions and covariate distributions for network meta-regression. Res Synth Methods 2018;9(2):243–60. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1292

Details

The interventions have been coded as follows: 1, no treatment; 2, placebo; 3, dentifrice; 4, rinse; 5, gel; and 6, varnish