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Cross-national agreement on disability weights: the European Disability Weights Project
Population Health Metrics, 2003 Background Disability weights represent the relative severity of disease stages to be incorporated in summary measures of population health. The level of agreement on disability weights in Western European countries was investigated with different ...
Burström Kristina +3 more
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Health Economics, 2020 We introduce a summary wellbeing measure for economic evaluation of cross‐sectoral public policies with impacts on health and living standards. We show how to calculate period‐specific and lifetime wellbeing using quality‐adjusted life years based on ...
R. Cookson +5 more
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Arthritis care & research, 2020 One‐half of the 14 million persons in the US with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are not physically active, despite evidence that physical activity (PA) is associated with improved health. We undertook this study to estimate both the quality‐adjusted life‐year
E. Losina +10 more
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Methodological challenges surrounding QALY estimation for paediatric economic evaluation
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022 Cost-utility analysis remains the preferred form of economic evaluation for health technology assessment, pricing and reimbursement authorities in several countries. The results of cost-utility analyses are commonly expressed in terms of incremental cost
Stavros Petrou
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Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life-Years When Health Fluctuates.
Value in Health, 2020 Recurrent fluctuations in health states can occur as a result of long-term conditions with episodic symptoms or through side effects of cycles of treatment.
S. Sanghera, J. Coast
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based COVID-19 health impact assessment: a systematic review
, 2023 Background The emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in health, socio-economic, and political crises. The overall health impact of this disease can be measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) which is the sum of the life years lost due to ...
Islam, Md Shahidul +3 more
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Estimation of Utility Weights for Prostate-related Health States in Korea [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2022 Objectives Very limited previous research has investigated the utility weights of prostate-related diseases in the general population in Korea. The purpose of this study was to calculate the utility of prostate-related health states in the Korean general
Seon-Ha Kim +3 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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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of delgocitinib in adult patients with atopic dermatitis in Japan
Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy, 2021 Objectives This study evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of delgocitinib relative to moisturization therapy in adult patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Methods The analysis was performed by using the simulation model with the patient‐level
Motoi Takenaka +7 more
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Community consultation for quality of life in Wales [PDF]
Community Voices Cardiff was part of a UK-wide research project, Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL) funded by the Arts and Humanities and Research Council. CCQOL was initiated by Professor Flora Samuel, based on the belief that creating
McVicar, Mhairi +2 more
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