QoLR-package: Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in Oncology

Description Details Author(s) References

Description

A set of functions to generate the scores of the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire and supplementary modules. Two other programs to determine the time to deterioration in a Quality of Life score in longitudinal analysis with different definitions of deterioration explored.

Details

Package: QoLR
Type: Package
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 2017-05-01
License: GPL (>=2.0)

A set of functions to generate the scores of the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire, for example function 'scoring.QLQC30', and supplementary modules. A function 'TTD' to determine the time to deterioration in a Health-related Quality of Life score in longitudinal analysis and function 'TUDD' to determine the time until definitive deterioration.

Author(s)

Amelie Anota

Maintainer: Amelie Anota <aanota@chu-besancon.fr>

References

Amelie Anota, Marion Savina, Caroline Bascoul-Mollevi, Franck Bonnetain (2017)., QoLR: An R Package for the Longitudinal Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in Oncology. Journal of Statistical Software, 77(12), 1-30, doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i12.

Anota A. et al. Time to Health-related Quality of Life score deterioration as a modality of longitudinal analysis for health-related quality of life studies in oncology: do we need RECIST for quality of life to achieve standardization? Qual Life Res. 2015, 24(1):5-18.

Bonnetain F. et al. Time until definitive deterioration as a means of longitudinal analysis for treatment trials in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Eur J Cancer 2010, 46(5): 2753-2762.

Fayers PM. et al. The EORTC QLQC30 scoring manual. 3rd ed. Brussels: EORTC, 2001.

Hamidou Z. et al. Time to deterioration in quality of life score as a modality of longitudinal analysis in patients with breast cancer. The Oncologist 2011, 16(10):1458-1468.


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