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Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life-Years When Health Fluctuates [PDF]
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. Fluctuations and associated duration of symptoms can be predictable (eg, side effects of chemotherapy treatment) or unpredictable (eg, relapse in multiple sclerosis). Such recurrent fluctuations in
Sanghera, Sabina, Coast, Joanna
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years without Constant Proportionality [PDF]
Value in Health, 2018 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.To empirically identify an alternative functional relationship between life span and value by relaxing the constant ...
Craig, Benjamin M. +3 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 OBJECTIVES We quantified the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost attributable to chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in the US, by sex and age group.
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.
C. Brück, F. Wolters, M. Ikram, Inge De
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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, Frederique Ram, P. 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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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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Health economics and health preference concepts to orthopedics practitioners [PDF]
Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2014 The aim of this study was to describe concepts of health economics in order to update and provide the orthopedic practitioner decision making parameters based on preferences.
Carlos Delano Mundim Araújo +5 more
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