MRQoL-package {MRQoL}R Documentation

Minimal Clinically Important Difference and Response Shift Effect for Health-Related Quality of Life

Description

We can calculate directly used this package the Minimal Clinically Important Difference by applying the Anchor-based method and the Response shift effect by applying the Then-Test method.

Details

Package: MCID
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2015-07-30
License: GPL (>= 2.0)

Author(s)

Ahmad Ousmen Maintainer: Ahmad Ousmen <ousmen.ahmad@hotmail.com>

References

Ann K Kvam, Finn Wisloff and Peter M Fayers, Minimal important differences and response shift in health related quality of life ; a longitudinal study in patients with multiple myeloma, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2010;1477-7525-8-79.

T. S. Dabakuyo, F. Guillemin, T. Conroy, M. Velten, D. Jolly, M. Mercier, S. Causeret, J. Cuisenier, O. Graesslin, M. Gauthier, F. Bonnetain, Response shift effects on measuring post-operative quality of life among breast cancer patients: a multicenter cohort study, Qual Life Res, 2012.

Zeinab Hamidou, Tienhan Sandrine Dabakuyo and Franck Bonnetain, Impact of response shift on longitudinal quality-of-life assessment in cancer clinical trials, Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Res, 2011;11(5), 549-559.


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