DARTH

Decision Analysis in R for Technology and Health

DARTH is an international collaboration focused on increasing health economic and decision analysis transparency and reproduceability by providing Open-Source R code.

Members:

  • Fernando Alarid (Stanford University)
  • Eva Enns (University of Minnesota)
  • Hawre Jalal (University of Ottawa)
  • Eline Krijkamp (Erasmus University)
  • Petros Pechlivanoglou (University of Toronto)
  • Myrium Hunnink (Erasmus and Harvard Univesity)

Activities:

  • In person, virtual and hybrid short courses
  • Tutorial publications
  • R package production

References

2023

  1. A tutorial on time-dependent cohort state-transition models in R using a cost-effectiveness analysis example
    Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eline Krijkamp, Eva A Enns, Alan Yang, MG Myriam Hunink, Petros Pechlivanoglou, and Hawre Jalal
    Medical Decision Making, 2023
  2. An introductory tutorial on cohort state-transition models in R using a cost-effectiveness analysis example
    Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eline Krijkamp, Eva A Enns, Alan Yang, MG Myriam Hunink, Petros Pechlivanoglou, and Hawre Jalal
    Medical Decision Making, 2023

2020

  1. A multidimensional array representation of state-transition model dynamics
    Eline M Krijkamp, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eva A Enns, Petros Pechlivanoglou, MG Myriam Hunink, Alan Yang, and Hawre J Jalal
    Medical Decision Making, 2020

2019

  1. A need for change! A coding framework for improving transparency in decision modeling
    Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eline M Krijkamp, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Hawre Jalal, Szu-Yu Zoe Kao, Alan Yang, and Eva A Enns
    Pharmacoeconomics, 2019

2018

  1. Microsimulation modeling for health decision sciences using R: a tutorial
    Eline M Krijkamp, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eva A Enns, Hawre J Jalal, MG Myriam Hunink, and Petros Pechlivanoglou
    Medical Decision Making, 2018

2017

  1. An overview of R in health decision sciences
    Hawre Jalal, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Eline Krijkamp, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eva Enns, and MG Myriam Hunink
    Medical decision making, 2017