QALY: Calculates EQ-5D-5L - Quality Adjusted Life Years

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/QALY.R

Description

This function converts scores from the EQ-5D-5L questionaire to Quality Adjusted Life Years. The function do this by using value sets of different countries:

Usage

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QALY(x, country = "dk", name = "STATE")

Arguments

x

dataframe

country

country of interest

name

name of the column with "32321"

Details

Denmark France Germany Japan Netherlands Spain Thailand UK US Zimbabwe

To use it scores of the 5 dimensions need to be pasted together and stored in a dataframe column. eg. 11111 is someone with good health as indicated by answers in the 5 categories and corronsponds to a QALY of 1, except in Zimbabwe, while 53454 would be someone with a bad health and would corronspond to a low or negative QALY

Value

Quality Adjusted Life Years that ranges between 1, and slightly negative, meaning worse than dead

Examples

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QALY(data.frame(STATE = 23212), country = "dk", name = "STATE")

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