scoring_eq5d3l: Scoring the European Quality of Life Five Dimension Three...

In nrkoehler/qscorer: Procedures for Scoring Health-related Questionnaires

Description

EQ-5D is a standardised measure of health status developed by the EuroQol Group to provide a simple, generic measure of health for clinical and economic appraisal. [...] The EQ-5D-3L descriptive system comprises the following five dimensions, each describing a different aspect of health: MOBILITY, SELF-CARE, USUAL ACTIVITIES, PAIN / DISCOMFORT and ANXIETY / DEPRESSION. (EQ-5D User Guide)

Usage

scoring_eq5d3l(data, items = 1:5, keep = TRUE, nvalid = 5, digits = NULL)

Arguments

data	a data.frame containing the EQ-5D-3L items orderd from 1 to 5
items	A character vector with the EQ-5D-3L item names ordered from 1 to 5, or a numeric vector indicating the column numbers of the EQ-5D-3L items in data.
keep	Logical, whether to keep the single items and whether to return variables containing the number of non-missing items on each scale for each respondent. The default is TRUE.
nvalid	A numeric value indicating the number of non-missing items required for score calculations. The default is 5.
digits	Integer of length one: value to round to. No rounding by default.

Details

• Number of items: 5

• Item range: 1 to 3

• Reverse items: none

• Score range: 0 to 1

• Cut-off-values: none

• Minimal clinically important difference: none

• Treatment of missing values: The Index Score is calculated if none of the five items is missing.

Value

The function returns 2 variables:

• nvalid.eq5d3l: Number of valid values (MAX=5)

• score.eq5d3l: EQ-5D-3L Index Score (TTO method)

Note

The scoring algorithm uses the TTO value set for Germany

References

Janssen et al (2012) (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-012-0322-4)

EQ-5D User Guide (https://euroqol.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EQ-5D-3L-User-Guide_version-6.0.pdf)

Examples

## Not run: 
library(dplyr)
items.eq5d3l <- paste0("eq5d3l_", seq(1, 5, 1))
scoring_eq5d3l(mydata, items = items.eq5d3l)

## End(Not run)

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