The quality-adjusted life-years in the oncological patients’ health-related quality of life [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 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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Reference-dependent age weighting of quality-adjusted life years. [PDF]
Health Econ, 2022 ABSTRACTPeople do not only care about maximizing health gains but also about their distribution. For example, they give more weight to younger patients than older patients. This pilot study aims to investigate if age weighting is reinforced by loss aversion if young people are falling behind one's perceived ‘normal’ quality of life (QoL), while older ...
Attema AE, Brouwer WBF, Pinto-Prades JL.
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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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Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs). [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2018 Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are central to healthcare decision-making in Britain and abroad, yet their history is poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that a more in-depth and political history of the QALY is needed to allow a critical ...
MacKillop E, Sheard S.
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Deriving monetary value of quality-adjusted life years through life extension from the value of a statistical life [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo 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]
Scientific Reports, 2022 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]
ESC Heart FailureAndrea Messori, Sabrina Trippoli
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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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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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Cost Analysis of a Digital Multimodal Cancer Prehabilitation
Current Oncology, 2022 Introduction: There is growing evidence that prehabilitation programmes effectively improve the physical and psychological conditions of cancer patients awaiting treatment. During the pandemic, people with cancer were classed as vulnerable.
Evdoxia Gkaintatzi +5 more
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