I am helping in writing a systemic review and Meta analysis. I need to calculate the complication rate. what i have is ??
Study, number of procedures done, number of complication observed and event rate??
I need to create a Forrest plot and and 95%CI.
i have access to revman and Statsdirect but confused what option to select and how to approach the overall question??
below is a little example
Study name N of procedures Events rate
ABCD 74 11 14.9
EFGH 30 0 0
CHFB 44 2 4.5
any kind of explanation would be highly appreciated??