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EQvalue

Overview

EQvalue is an R package to calculate Quality Adjusted Life Year’s (QALY) from EuroQol questionaire EQ-5D-5L

Installation

# The easiest way to install:
devtools::install_github("HaemAalborg/EQvalue")

Usage

EQ-5D-5L data looks something like this

#>     NAME MOBILITY SELFCARE ACTIVITY PAIN ANXIETY
#> 1 Hansen        1        1        1    1       1
#> 2 Jensen        2        3        2    3       2
#> 3 Olesen        2        5        4    3       1

The function EQpaste gathers the answers into one column if they corronspond to the naming scheeme proposed in the user guide, which is: MOBILITY, SELFCARE, ACTIVITY, PAIN, ANXIETY.

library(EQvalue)

df_1 <- EQpaste(df_0)
df_1
#>     NAME MOBILITY SELFCARE ACTIVITY PAIN ANXIETY STATE
#> 1 Hansen        1        1        1    1       1 11111
#> 2 Jensen        2        3        2    3       2 23232
#> 3 Olesen        2        5        4    3       1 25431

The function is called QALY and takes as arguments a dataframe, a country and a name of the colum with the parsed scores eg. 11111.

df_2 <- QALY(df_1, country = "dk", name = "STATE")
df_2
#>     NAME MOBILITY SELFCARE ACTIVITY PAIN ANXIETY STATE Denmark
#> 1 Hansen        1        1        1    1       1 11111   1.000
#> 2 Jensen        2        3        2    3       2 23232   0.625
#> 3 Olesen        2        5        4    3       1 25431   0.509

HaemAalborg/EQvalue documentation built on Aug. 20, 2019, 4:05 a.m.