The Estimated Lifetime Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States in 2018. [PDF]
Background Comprehensive evaluation of the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost attributable to chlamydia, gonorrhea, andtrichomoniasis in the United States is lacking.
Li Y +9 more
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Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures and Quality-Adjusted Life Years Following One- and Two-Stage Septic Knee Exchange. [PDF]
(1) Background: Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) can be managed with one- or two-stage revision surgery protocol. Despite several studies analyzing the eradication rates between both procedures, there are no comparative studies that analyze patient ...
Budin M +6 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to COVID-19 Mortality: Methods and Application for The Netherlands. [PDF]
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 ...
Wouterse B, Ram F, van Baal P.
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The quality-adjusted life-years in the oncological patients’ health-related quality of life [PDF]
The oncological treatment can significantly affect patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which should be monitored to ensure our patients’ well-being.
Karolina Kucnerowicz +6 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Physical Inactivity in a US Population With Osteoarthritis. [PDF]
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
Losina E +10 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years without Constant Proportionality [PDF]
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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Deriving monetary value of quality-adjusted life years through life extension from the value of a statistical life [PDF]
To address the recent rise in healthcare expenditure due to an aging population, the rational allocation and efficient use of resources, based on scientific evidence, have become indispensable.
Yusuke Tanizawa +2 more
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Author Correction: The quality-adjusted life-years in the oncological patients’ health-related quality of life [PDF]
Karolina Kucnerowicz +6 more
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Study of CardioMEMS in heart failure patients: Study confirms benefit in costs and quality‐adjusted life years, but does not measure quality‐adjusted life years [PDF]
Andrea Messori, Sabrina Trippoli
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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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