QALY_survival: QALY_survival

In Health-Economics-in-R/QALY: Calculate Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) Gains with Discounting and Inflated Costs

Description

TODO: use expected QALY over (all-cause) life-table survival probabilities.

Usage

QALY_survival(utility = NA, gender = NA, age = NA, start_delay = 0,
  discount_rate = 0.035, utility_method = "add")

Arguments

utility	Vector of values between 0 and 1 (1 - utility loss)
age	Year of age
start_delay	What time delay to origin, to shift discounting
discount_rate	default 3.5%
utility_method	Should the yearly QALYs be summed to a scalar? add or prod
intervals	Time intervals for each utility

Details

Uses the following formula:

QALY = \int_0^∞ S(t) u(t) dt \approx ∑_0^100 S(t) u(t)

See Also

calc_QALY_population total_QALYs

Examples

calc_QALY(utility = 0.9,
          age = 13,
          intervals = 49)

Health-Economics-in-R/QALY documentation built on Oct. 26, 2020, 2:28 a.m.