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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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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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Quality-Adjusted Life Years After Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
JB & JS open access, 2018 Background: The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is the preferred outcome measurement for cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. QALYs measure patient health-related quality of life with use of a value between 0 and 1.
Joseph F. Konopka +3 more
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Fundamental Measurement: The Need Fulfilment Quality of Life (N-QOL) Measure
INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2021 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) has serious problems related to its failure to adhere to measurement theory. If a QALY is to be meaningful, the utility score that translates time spent to an equivalent time spent in so-called perfect health must ...
Paul C. Langley, Stephen P. McKenna
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Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs)
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 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 ...
E. MacKillop, S. Sheard
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The Impact of Ankle Arthritis Treatment on Quality Adjusted Life Years
Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2017 Category: Ankle, Ankle Arthritis Introduction/Purpose: Patients living with end stage ankle arthritis suffer significant disability. They are two standard deviations below population scores for all symptom and function SF-36 sub-scales. In addition, they
Kelly Hynes MD, BSc +5 more
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Palliative Medicine, 2017 Background: In cost-effectiveness analyses in healthcare, Quality-Adjusted Life Years are often used as outcome measure of effectiveness. However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the appropriateness of its use for decision-making in palliative care.
Anne B. Wichmann +6 more
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Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021 [Background] As estimated by the World Health Organization, depressive disorders will be the leading contributor to the Global Burden of Disease by 2030.
Laura Ulbrich, Christoph Kröger
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017 BackgroundQuality-adjusted life years (QALY) is a single value index that quantifies the overall burden of disease. It reflects all aspects of heath, including nonfatal illness and mortality outcomes by weighting life-years lived with health-related ...
Haomiao Jia, Erica I. Lubetkin
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