person_health_years: Person health years object constructor

In n8thangreen/QALY: Calculate Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) Gains with Discounting and Inflated Costs

Description

For use as input to the QALY (and DALY) functions. Want to provide set-up info in different ways but which gives us all the necessary information to go calc QALYs later. individual level data. Don’t need to supply all of these otherwise there would be redundancy and possible conflicts. E.g. time horizon can be got from start and end year. Need to calculate QoL which is discounting due to age from start to end year.

Usage

person_health_years(start_year = 0, end_year = NA, delay = 0,
  age = NA, time_horizon = NA, utility, discount_rate = 0.035,
  utility_method = "add")

Arguments

start_year	Calendar year to begin calculation
end_year	Calendar year to end calculation
delay	If the start_year is in the future then the first discounting is not 1 but smaller accordingly (positive integer) We could alternatively define year_now
age	Age at start of period (could be an age group)
time_horizon	Number of time periods from start to end date
utility	Proportion health detriment. This may change over time. Could provide as a list of length end-start or as say list(c(2,3), c(u1,u2)) like in WinBUGs data.
discount_rate	Fixed proportion reduction over time or a (continuous) function e.g. negative exponential
utility_method	Should the yearly QALYs be summed to a scalar? add or prod

Value

Object of class person_health_years

• start_year

• end_year

• delay

• age

• time_horizon

• utility

• QoL

• discount_rate

• death

• utility_method

See Also

QALY, DALY

Examples

personHealthYears <- person_health_years(
                      start_year = 2016,
                      end_year = 2020,
                      age = 33,
                      time_horizon = NA,
                      utility = 0.9,
                      discount_rate = 0.035)

total_QALYs(personHealthYears)
## 2.913622

## Not run: 
 total_QALY(1)
 ## "Error: Not an person_health_years class input object."

## End(Not run)

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