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Thrombosis Journal, 2021 Background Recently, direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been included in guidelines for the treatment of cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) to be extended to suitable cancer patients.
Kaidireyahan Wumaier +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Background and aimCOVID-19 pandemic burdens the healthcare systems, causes healthcare avoidance, and might worsen the outcomes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management. We aimed to estimate the impact of pandemic-related avoidance on outpatient IBD
Jiaqi Yao +3 more
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Value in Health, 2009 The aim of this article is to review the concept of the qualityadjusted life-year (QALY), a widely used measure of health improvement that is used to guide health-care resource allocation decisions. The QALY was originally developed as a measure of health effectiveness for cost-effectiveness analysis, a method intended to aid decision-makers charged ...
Weinstein, Milton C. +2 more
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A QALY is [still] a QALY is [still] a QALY?
BMC Medical EthicsAbstract Despite clinical evidence of drug superiority, therapeutic modalities, like combination immunotherapy, are mostly considered cost-ineffective due to their high costs per life year(s) gained. This paper, taking an ethical stand, reevaluates the standard cost-effectiveness analysis with that of the more recent justice-enhanced methods and ...
Mahdiani, Hamideh +2 more
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BJGP Open, 2022 Background: Insomnia is common, and difficulty with daytime functioning is a core symptom. Studies show cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) improves functioning, but evidence is needed on its value for money.
Elizabeth A Stokes +4 more
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Personal and societal health quality lost to tuberculosis.
PLoS ONE, 2009 BackgroundIn developed countries, tuberculosis is considered a disease with little loss of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). Tuberculosis treatment is predominantly ambulatory and death from tuberculosis is rare.
Thaddeus L Miller +4 more
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Problems and solutions in calculating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2003 The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a measure of the value of health outcomes. Since health is a function of length of life and quality of life, the QALY was developed as an attempt to combine the value of these attributes into a single index number.
Sacristán José A, Prieto Luis
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Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2022 Background: There is little data modeling the impact of deemed consent legislation (eligible individuals who do not register their decision to decline to be a donor are presumed to consent after death) on outcomes for individuals with kidney failure ...
Koto P. +7 more
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Calculating QALYs, comparing QALY and DALY calculations [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2006 Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) have been used in the assessment of health interventions for three decades. The popularity of the QALY approach has been constantly increasing, although the debate on its theoretical underpinnings and practical implications is still ongoing.
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