FACTscorer: FACTscorer

In FACTscorer: Scores the FACT and FACIT Family of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Description

Scores the FACT and FACIT family of QoL patient-reported outcome measures

Details

Provides functions to score the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) and Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. The questionnaires themselves can be downloaded from www.FACIT.org. For most of the FACIT questionnaires, FACIT.org provides scoring syntax for use with commercial statistical software (SAS and SPSS). The FACTscorer R package is intented to serve as a free, reliable alternative for those without access to SAS or SPSS. Additionally, it will allow R users to both score and analyze the FACT and FACIT scales in R, avoiding the time-consuming and and error-prone process of transferring the data back-and-forth between statistical softwares. Finally, use of the FACTscorer package will prevent many sources of scoring error common when using SAS and/or SPSS syntax (e.g., copy-paste errors and other accidental modifications to the syntax).

FACTscorer documentation built on May 29, 2017, 3:45 p.m.