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The quality-of-life burden of knee osteoarthritis in New Zealand adults: A model-based evaluation.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundKnee osteoarthritis is a leading global cause of health-related quality of life loss. The aim of this project was to quantify health losses arising from knee osteoarthritis in New Zealand (NZ) in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs ...
J Haxby Abbott, Ilana M Usiskin, Ross Wilson, Paul Hansen, Elena Losina   +4 more
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Mean costs per patient, utility values and QALYs.

, 2018
Mean costs per patient, utility values and QALYs.
Xin Cheng (179584), Andrew Bivard (3556919), Mark Parsons (803303), Kim Edmunds (5681765), Kenneth Butcher (4037567), Longting Lin (5343083), Christopher Levi (606827), Jingfen Zhang (6521), Tim Kleinig (5883971), Richard Aviv (5883968), Penny Reeves (5883965)   +10 more
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Deriving distributional weights for QALYs through discrete choice experiments

This paper presents the first attempt to use a discrete choice experiment to derive distributional weights for quality adjusted life years (QALYs), based on characteristics (age and severity) of the beneficiaries.
Donaldson C, Ryan M, Wildman J, Lancsar E, Baker B   +4 more
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The cost-effectiveness analysis of immune checkpoint inhibitors for microsatellite instability-high/mismatch repair deficient advanced colorectal cancer

Scientific Reports
Research probing the clinical utility of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) supports the development of novel, efficacious approaches to treating colorectal cancer (CRC) patients without chemotherapy.
Pei Yang, Zhengda Pei, Yuan Zhou, Haiping Pei   +3 more
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Elderly people with social networks versus elderly people without social networks: cost-utility analysis from an institutional perspective and from the patient / Adultos mayores con redes sociales versus sin redes sociales: análisis de costo-utilidad desd

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015
María Guadalupe Casales Hernández
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Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) in healthcare decision making

What are QALYs and what role do QALYs play in deciding which treatments the NHS funds?
Borislava Mihaylova, Esubalew Assefa, Yan Feng   +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of Cadonilimab in first-line treatment of advanced HER2-negative gastric cancer or gastroesophageal junction cancer

Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), including Pembrolizumab, Nivolumab, Sintilimab, Tislelizumab, and Sugemalimab, have been approved in China as first-line treatments for advanced HER2-negative gastric cancer (GC) and gastroesophageal ...
Kaiqi Zhu, Mengyao Qin, Zhaoyi Pan, Jin Huang   +3 more
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The Oregon Plan and QALYs

AMA Journal of Ethics, 2005
A controversial Oregon plan used quality-of-life assessments to provide fewer health care services to a larger pool of Medicaid patients. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
openaire   +2 more sources

Is non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging cost-effective for screening of hepatocellular carcinoma?

Singapore Medical Journal
Introduction: Ultrasonography (US) is the current standard of care for imaging surveillance in patients at risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been explored as an alternative, given the higher sensitivity of MRI ...
Genevieve Jingwen Tan, Chau Hung Lee, Yan Sun, Cher Heng Tan   +3 more
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Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery

Global Spine Journal, 2015
Introduction There is a lack of long-term outcomes in the existing cost-effectiveness literature. This study examines the long-term cost-effectiveness of surgical treatment of ASD with a Markov model populated by estimates from literature and observed ...
Ian McCarthy, Chessie Robinson, Richard Hostin, Michael O'Brien, Christopher Ames, Munish Gupta, Virginie Lafage, Robert Hart, Justin Smith, Frank Schwab   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source