QoLdata: Examplary Quality of Life data

Description

A data frame with quality of life measures for 57 patients, originally published in the QoLR package: Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in oncology. For more details, see the CRAN archive, the corresponding GitHub pare, or the references below.

Usage

data(QoLdata)

Arguments

Format

id: patient identification number
time: visit number for quality of life assessment, in this case all measurements are from the first time-point (hence, all are set to 0)
date: date of quality of life measure
QoL: score of global quality of life on a 0-1 scale in order that a high score reflects a high quality of life level
pain: score of pain on a 0-100 sale in order that a high score reflects a high level of pain
arm: treatment arm equal to 0 or 1
death: date of death. Missing if the patient is not died

References

Anota A. et al. Time to Health-related Quality of Life score deterioration as a modality of longitudinal analysis for health-related quality of life studies in oncology: do we need RECIST for quality of life to achieve standardization? Qual Life Res. 2015, 24(1):5-18.

Bonnetain F. et al. Time until definitive deterioration as a means of longitudinal analysis for treatment trials in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Eur J Cancer 2010, 46(5): 2753-2762.

Fayers PM. et al. The EORTC QLQC30 scoring manual. 3rd ed. Brussels: EORTC, 2001.

Hamidou Z. et al. Time to deterioration in quality of life score as a modality of longitudinal analysis in patients with breast cancer. The Oncologist 2011, 16(10):1458-1468.

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
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# was constructed from dataqol2
data(dataqol2)
data(QoLdata)
## take one time-point
dataqol <- dataqol2[dataqol2$time ==0,]
## remove missings
dataqol <- dataqol[complete.cases(dataqol[,c("QoL", "arm", "pain")]),]
## rescale outcome to [0,1]
dataqol$QoL <- dataqol$QoL/100

identical(dataqol, QoLdata )


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