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tatooheene

This is the Technology Appraisal Toolbox for Health Economic Evaluations in the Netherlands.

The goal of this package is to make health economic evaluation models in R easier and clearer. It provides several datasets and functions that are needed when building models based on the Dutch Guideline for Health Economic Evaluations in The Netherlands.

Installation

You can install the development version of tatooheene from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("tatooheene/tatooheene")

About the data

The package contains several datasets that are used in the Dutch Guideline for Health Economic Evaluations in The Netherlands. Data were taken from CBS, ZIN & OECD

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Install

install.packages('tatooheene')

Monthly Downloads

153

Version

1.0.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Stijn Peeters

Last Published

December 15th, 2025

Functions in tatooheene (1.0.0)

depreciation_interest

Annual depreciation + interest for medical equipment
apply_discounting

Calculate the discounted (net present value) of costs or effects
friction_period

Friction period lookup (days/weeks; 1-year or 5-year average)
pretty_price

A function to write pretty prices in bookdown reports
data_model_output_sick_sicker

Example model output for the sick-sicker model
df_cpi_combined

Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from CBS
df_ref_prices

Complete data of reference values from the costing manual
nl_price_index

A function to calculate the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for a given year range.
nl_ref_prices

A function to download the Reference prices of the Dutch Costing Manual for one or multiple years
df_fp

Job vacancy data from CBS
df_ppp

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) data from OECD
nl_ppp

A function to obtain the Dutch PPP factor values in International Dollar (INT$)