Calcalate hazard ratio using metabin function

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Calcalate hazard ratio using metabin function #25

Closed t-r-uth closed 4 years ago

t-r-uth commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I have a set of binary/dichotomous outcomes. I wanted to calculate the hazard ratio for meta analysis and network meta analysis. However when I look at "meta" package "metabin"function "sm" argument, only risk ratio(RR) and odds ratio(OR) are available.

guido-s commented 4 years ago

The hazard ratio is a summary measure for time-to-event data, not binary data.

However, in a study without censoring the hazard ratio and risk ratio are (in principle) the same - if the observation times in the two groups are comparable.