wound

Soap or saline: which is better for cleaning wounds?


Overview

An experiment where patients' who had open wounds were cleaned with either soap or saline.

For an informal overview of the experiment and findings, see this United Press International article.


Variables

  • cleaning: The type of irrigation solution used to clean the wound.
  • outcome: If the patient required additional procedures due to infection of the wound.


Loading Data

CSV Download

To access the data in R, type

source("http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/wound.R")

To access the data in SAS, type

filename wound url 'http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/wound.csv'