MRQoL (version 1.0)

MRQoL-package: 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

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.