FACTscorer (version 0.1.0)
Scores the FACT and FACIT Family of Patient-Reported Outcome
Measures
Description
Provides functions to score the Functional Assessment of Cancer
Therapy (FACT) and Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT)
family of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. The questionnaires
themselves can be downloaded from www.FACIT.org. For most of the FACIT
questionnaires, FACIT.org provides scoring syntax for use with commercial
statistical software (SAS and SPSS). The FACTscorer R package is intended
to serve as a free, reliable alternative for those without access to SAS or
SPSS. Additionally, it will allow R users to both score and analyze the
FACT and FACIT scales in R, avoiding the time-consuming and and error-prone
process of transferring data back-and-forth between statistical software.
Finally, use of the FACTscorer package will prevent many sources of scoring
error common when using SAS and/or SPSS syntax (e.g., copy-paste errors and
other accidental modifications to the syntax).