A cost-effectiveness object
An object that summarizes simulated measures of clinical effectiveness and costs from a simulation model for use in a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Format
A list containing two elements:
costs: Total (discounted) costs by category.qalys: (Discounted) quality-adjusted life-years.
Costs
The costs data.table contains the following columns:
- category: The cost category.
- dr: The discount rate.
- sample: A randomly sampled parameter set from the probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA)
- strategy_id: The treatment strategy ID.
- grp_id: An optional column denoting a subgroup. If not included, it is assumed that a single subgroup is being analyzed.
- costs: Costs.
Quality-adjusted life-years
The qalys data.table contains the following columns:
- dr: The discount rate.
- sample: A randomly sampled parameter set from the probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA)
- strategy_id: The treatment strategy ID.
- grp_id: An optional column denoting a subgroup. If not included, it is assumed that a single subgroup is being analyzed.
- qalys: Quality-adjusted life-years