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Quality of life and quality-adjusted life years after stroke in Sierra Leone. [PDF]
Int J StrokeYoukee D +5 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate whether tenofovir prophylaxis for mothers with high viral loads in late pregnancy is a cost-effective way to prevent mother-to-child hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission in China.
Juan Yin +6 more
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The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2022 Summary: Background: The growing spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is accepted as a threat to humans, animals and the environment. This threat is considered to be both country specific and global, with bacteria resistant to antibiotic treatment ...
Teresa M. Wozniak +3 more
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Multiple Sclerosis, 2020 Objectives: To quantify life expectancy (LE), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and total lifetime societal costs for a hypothetical cohort of Australians with multiple sclerosis (MS).
A. Palmer +5 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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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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Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2021 Objectives To comparatively evaluate a low‐cost otoscope with a traditional device among health care workers in Malawi. Methods The study is a prospective, comparative, qualitative observational survey of health care worker's opinions using 5‐point ...
Katharine Balfour +7 more
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Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2000 We estimate the income-related inequality in Sweden with respect to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). We use a large data set from Sweden with over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-16 years, to estimate the survival and quality-adjusted survival in different income groups.
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Johannesson, Magnus
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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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Quality adjusted life years in the time of COVID-19 [PDF]
Australian Health Review, 2021 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) as a basis of valuing additional expenditure on health is widely accepted. Although early in the COVID-19 pandemic, several commentators called for a similar approach in resolving trade-offs between economic activity and reducing the burden of COVID-19, this has not occurred.
Hall, Jane, Viney, Rosalie
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