eq5d: Methods for Analysing 'EQ-5D' Data and Calculating 'EQ-5D' Index Scores

EQ-5D is a widely used health-related quality-of-life instrument developed by the EuroQol Group and used in the clinical and economic evaluation of health care. Health is described using five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression) rated on either a three-level (EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-Y-3L) or five-level (EQ-5D-5L) scale. Responses can be reported as EQ-5D health states or converted to utility index scores using country-specific value sets. The package provides methods for the valuation, reporting and analysis of EQ-5D data. Utility index scores can be calculated for EQ-5D-3L, EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-Y-3L data using a wide range of value sets and mapping approaches. Functionality is also provided for descriptive-system reporting, severity and distributional summaries, informativity measures, health-state distribution analysis, longitudinal change analysis, probability of superiority analysis and Health Profile Grid visualisation. Methods described in Devlin et al. (2020) <doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47622-9> are implemented where appropriate. A companion 'Shiny' application is included for interactive analysis and visualisation of EQ-5D datasets.

Version:	0.17.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0), lifecycle, rlang
Suggests:	testthat, shiny, DT, mime, readxl, ggplot2, ggiraph, ggiraphExtra, shinycssloaders, shinyWidgets, FSA, PMCMRplus, knitr, rmarkdown, covr
Published:	2026-08-28
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.eq5d
Author:	Fraser Morton [aut, cre], Jagtar Singh Nijjar [aut]
Maintainer:	Fraser Morton <fraser.morton at glasgow.ac.uk>
BugReports:	https://github.com/fragla/eq5d/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/fragla/eq5d
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	eq5d results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	eq5d.html , eq5d.pdf
Vignettes:	Mapping between EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L using the NICE Decision Support Unit models (source, R code) Reporting EQ-5D Data with eq5d (source, R code) Reporting the EQ-5D Descriptive System (source, R code) Reporting EQ-5D Severity and Distributional Summaries (source, R code) Reporting EQ-5D Change Analysis (source, R code)

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Package source:	eq5d_0.17.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: eq5d_0.17.0.zip, r-release: eq5d_0.16.3.zip, r-oldrel: eq5d_0.17.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): eq5d_0.17.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): eq5d_0.17.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): eq5d_0.17.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): eq5d_0.17.0.tgz
Old sources:	eq5d archive

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