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Cost-effectiveness of augmenting universal hepatitis B vaccination with immunoglobulin treatment: a case study in Zhejiang Province, East China

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Objective To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the current strategy combining universal vaccination with hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) treatment for infants of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive mothers compared with universal vaccination ...
Yanbing Zeng   +6 more
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Abandoning Eugenics and the QALY

open access: yesINNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2021
Should decision making in health care, notably in respect of the allocation of resources between individuals and disease states, rest on notions of the burden of disease and denial of care as assessed by societal evaluations or on the extent to which the
Paul C Langley
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QALYs: Some Challenges

open access: yesValue in Health, 2009
In the preceding article, Weinstein et al. [1] explain the QALYconcept, its methods, and their underlying assumptions. Anumber of interesting themes for discussion arise from thisfactual presentation. We restrict ourselves to addressing fourissues that we deem particularly challenging.As a general background for our selection of issues, we reit-erate a
Nord, Erik   +2 more
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Predicting EQ-5D-5L Utility Scores from the Oswestry Disability Index and Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire for Low Back Pain

open access: yesJournal of Pain Research, 2020
Thomas G Poder,1– 3 Nathalie Carrier3 1School of Public Health, Department of Management, Evaluation and Health Policy, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de ...
Poder TG, Carrier N
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METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF STANDARD GAMBLE METHOD USAGE IN QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT IN PHARMACOECONOMIC RESEARCHES

open access: yesФармакоэкономика, 2015
Utility assessment is one of the most important stages of pharmacoeconomic analysis. Most of utility researches are conducted using standard gamble method which is considered the classic instrument of health state utilities assessment.
R. I. Yagudina   +2 more
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Obinutuzumab Plus Chemotherapy Compared with Rituximab Plus Chemotherapy in Previously Untreated Italian Patients with Advanced Follicular Lymphoma at Intermediate–High Risk: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

open access: yesClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2021
Marco Bellone,1 Lorenzo Pradelli,1 Stefano Molica,2 Adele Emanuela De Francesco,3 Daniela Ghislieri,4 Emanuele Guardalben,5 Antonietta Caputo4 1Department of Health Economics and Outcome Research, AdRes Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Turin ...
Bellone M   +6 more
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Review of methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions

open access: yesРеальная клиническая практика: данные и доказательства
Assessment of the effectiveness of a drug is a complex process. Currently, the standard method for assessing the effectiveness of a medical intervention is the quality-adjusted life years (QALY).
T. I. Busheva, A. A. Kurylev
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Stroke survivors’ long-term QALY-weights in relation to their spouses’ QALY-weights and informal support: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
BackgroundHealthcare interventions that have positive effects on the stroke survivors’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) might also have positive effects for their spouses in terms of improved HRQoL and/or ...
Josefine Persson   +7 more
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Castigating QALYs. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 1989
The ethical problem of how to apportion limited resources amongst the needy has been forced on us by arbitrary limitation of health expenditure. Its solution would not be required if health expenditure were higher. Distribution of resources according to best value for money, assessed as Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) per unit cost, has been ...
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The PROMIS of QALYs [PDF]

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2015
Measuring health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important for tracking the health of individuals and populations over time. Generic HRQoL measures allow for comparison across health conditions. One form of generic HRQoL measures are profile measures, which provide a description of health across several different domains (such as physical
Janel Hanmer   +9 more
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