You can prepare only the so-called Partitioned Survival Analysis, but those are without the quality of life weights. I describe Partitioned analysis in my paper in The American Statistician and give citations to description of the method in a  Biometrics paper.

There are several variations on quality adjusted survival analysis, that incorporate the quality of life scores- and you would need to program those on your own.  The most well known is called "Q-TWIST" analysis originally published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


19. Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD, Simes RJ, Glasziou P, Coates AS. Costs and
benefits of adjuvant therapy in breast cancer: a quality-adjusted survival
analysis. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1989; 7(1):36-44.


http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5000337338




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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:58:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Pedro Mota Veiga <motaveiga@net.sapo.pt>
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Subject: [R] How can I doing Quality adjusted survival analysis in R?
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Hi R  users
I need to estimate, with kaplan Meier methodology, a Quality adjusted
survival analysis. It is possible doing this at R?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards

Pedro Mota Veiga

 
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