clintrial_cea: Example CEA clinical trial data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset that includes cost, QALYs, and six explanatory variables that can be used to conduct multivariable analyses of cost and QALYs by generalized linear models and can also be used for other example CEAs. This dataset is provided by the Health Services Research Unit and used in the text "Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials" by Glick HA, Doshi JA, Sonnad SS, and Polsky D. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 500 rows and 9 variables:

id

unique id for each patient in trial

treat

intervention variable, 1 for treatment, 0 for control

cost

total cost, in dollars

qaly

QALYs, quality-adjusted life-years

dissev

disease severity, range from 0.025 to 0.729

race

race

blcost

baseline cost, in dollars

blqaly

baseline QALY, quality-adjusted life-years

male

gender, 1 for male, 0 for female

Source

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/dgimhsr/eeinct_multiv.htm


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