achilles {repolr} | R Documentation |
Achilles Tendon Rupture
Description
EuroQol activity scores, measured on 3 a point ordinal score scale, post-surgery for 48 patients at 3 occasions.
Usage
data(achilles)
Format
A data frame with 144 observations on the following 4 variables.
Patient
- A patient identifier variable.
Treat
- Post-surgery treatments are either immediate mobilisation in a carbon-fibre orthosis with three 1.5cm heel raises (1) or traditional plaster cast immobilisation (2).
Time
- Recorded at baseline (1), six months (2) and one year (3) post-surgery.
Activity
- ability to undertake usual activities post-surgery; this was scored by each patient as either no problem (1), some problem (2) or an inability to perform (3) usual activity (e.g. work, leisure, housework etc).
Source
Costa, M.L., MacMillan, K., Halliday, D., Chester, R., Shepstone, L., Robinson, A.H.N., Donell, S.T. (2006). Randomised controlled trials of immediate weight-bearing mobilisation for rupture of the tendon Achillis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British) 88-B, 69-77.
Examples
data(achilles)
str(achilles)
[Package
repolr version 1.0
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