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Value in Health, 2021 OBJECTIVES To quantify the impact of mammography-based screening on the quality of life, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) averted or quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained can be used.
M. Davidović +5 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years without Constant Proportionality
Value in Health, 2018 BACKGROUND A quality-adjusted life-year is a common unit of measurement in health valuation. Under its constant proportionality assumption, the value of a quality-adjusted life span is defined as the product of preference weight and life span ...
Kim Rand +2 more
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Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2023 This paper explores the symbolic and material implications of the use of DALYs and QALYs as priority or tie-breaker criteria in triage decisions. It aims to answer the question of their ethical permissibility based on the particular case of the COVID-19
Lautaro Leani, Ignacio Mastroleo
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Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Background Comprehensive evaluation of the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost attributable to chlamydia, gonorrhea, andtrichomoniasis in the United States is lacking.
Yunfei Li +9 more
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Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2023 Efficient healthcare planning requires reliable projections of the future increase in costs and quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) lost due to dementia.
Chiara C. Brück +3 more
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Value in Health, 2022 Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has increased mortality worldwide considerably in 2020. Nevertheless, it is unknown how the increase in mortality translates into a loss in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), which is a function of age and the health ...
B. Wouterse, F. Ram, P. V. van Baal
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International Orthopaedics, 2021 Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the treatment of choice for end-stage osteoarthritis though its risk-benefit ratio in elderly patients remains debated. This study aimed to evaluate the functional outcome, rates of complication and mortality, and quality-
Michele Palazzuolo +3 more
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Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2021 Context: The Indian government is dispensing newer direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs, which may have impact on hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients’ quality of life (QoL).
Bhavya H Vyas +4 more
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Health Economics, 2021 Health economics uses quality adjusted life years (QALYs) to help healthcare decision makers. However, unlike life expectancy for which age- and sex-dependent national life tables are available, no general population norms exist to use as a benchmark ...
A. Palmer +7 more
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AMA journal of ethics, 2021 Before updating any willingness-to-pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) threshold, a few points must be recognized. Ethical justification for using WTP thresholds and QALYs lies in incorporating the preferences of those whose treatment could ...
P. Menzel
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