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Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2003
Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different from one another and all suffer from serious inherent biases.
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Are Quality-Adjusted Life Years a Good Proxy Measure of Individual Capabilities?

PharmacoEconomics (Auckland), 2017
BackgroundThere is a debate in the health economics literature concerning the most appropriate way of applying Amartya Sen’s capability approach in economic evaluation studies.
P. Mitchell, S. Venkatapuram, J. Richardson, A. Iezzi, J. Coast   +4 more
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Leukemia and Exposure to Potential Benzene Sources in Children From the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, 2010–2021: A Geospatial Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer in Mexico, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most frequent subtype. Exposure to high concentrations of benzene has been associated with ALL incidence, particularly in urban areas. This study evaluated the relationship between distance to benzene emission sources and the number
Orlando Rivera Zurita, Norma Candelaria López Santiago, Claudia Maria García Cuellar, Karla Maldonado Silva, Nancy Reynoso Noverón, Leticia Hernández Cadena   +5 more
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Economic burden on stroke survivors in Asian and African countries: A protocol for systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2023
Introduction: Stroke is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide accompanied by huge financial burden on an individual and society.
Summaiya Zareen Shaikh, Anant Patil, Mohammed Usman Ali, Asmita Karajgi   +3 more
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Psychosocial Functioning After Pediatric Bone Sarcoma: Generic and Survivor‐Specific Outcomes in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors may experience psychosocial challenges related to childhood cancer after their intensive, body‐altering treatment. This cross‐sectional study aimed to evaluate generic and survivor‐specific psychosocial outcomes in a national cohort of pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors, and ...
Hinke van der Hoek, Heleen Maurice‐Stam, Laura R. Beek, Jennifer van Dijk, Marjolein E. M. Langemeijer, Relinde W. Slooff‐Lentink, Alied M. van der Aa‐van Delden, Anne Westerweel, Marloes van Gorp, Hendrik W. B. Schreuder, Lianne M. Haveman, W. Peter Bekkering, Leonie G. Tigelaar, Johannes H. M. Merks, Martha A. Grootenhuis   +14 more
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Incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years of female breast cancer in China, 2022

Chinese Medical Journal
Background: Breast cancer is ranked among the most prevalent malignancies in the Chinese female population. However, comprehensive reports detailing the latest epidemiological data and attributable disease burden have not been extensively documented ...
K. Sun, Bailin Zhang, S. Lei, R. Zheng, Xin Liang, Li Li, Xiaolong Feng, Siwei Zhang, H. Zeng, Yifei Yao, P. Ma, Shaoming Wang, Ru Chen, B. Han, Wenqiang Wei, Jie He   +15 more
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Estimation of Quality‐adjusted Life Years alongside clinical trials: the impact of ‘time‐effects’ on trial results

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, 2018
The objectives were to investigate the impact of ‘time‐effect’ on the estimation of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) along prospective clinical trials’ outcomes using an assumed fixed time duration versus the actual time durations for each case.
M. Touray
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Re‐Irradiation in Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma: A Multi‐Institutional Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with recurrent diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) have limited therapeutic options at recurrence. Re‐irradiation (RT2) may be used at progression, but with uncertainty about the benefit. Methods We conducted a multi‐institutional retrospective study of children aged < 18 with DMG treated at three centers (Toronto, Canada ...
Ajay Thomas Alex, Sean P. Hassan, Helen Benghiat, Liam Herbert, Jennifer Adamski, Shivani Bailey, Claire Esler, Louise Brookes, Molly Bamber, Grace Koudou, Karen Waite, Julie Bennett, Anirban Das, Derek S. Tsang   +13 more
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Estimation of health state utilities in breast cancer

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2017
Seon-Ha Kim,1 Min-Woo Jo,2 Minsu Ock,2 Hyeon-Jeong Lee,2 Jong-Won Lee3,4 1Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Dankook University, Cheonan, 2Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, 3Department of Breast ...
Kim SH, Jo MW, Ock M, Lee HJ, Lee JW
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Global, Regional, and National Prevalence, Incidence, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for Oral Conditions for 195 Countries, 1990–2015: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

Journal of dentistry research, 2017
The Global Burden of Disease 2015 study aims to use all available data of sufficient quality to generate reliable and valid prevalence, incidence, and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) estimates of oral conditions for the period of 1990 to 2015. Since
N. Kassebaum, Agnes Smith, E. Bernabé, T.D. Fleming, A.E. Reynolds, T. Vos, Christopher J. L. Murray, W. Marcenes, G.Y. U. H. H. L. R. A. Y.S. Y.H. Y. G.A. R. A. P. M. C. Abyu Alsharif Asayesh Benzian Dandona Dandona Kasa   +8 more
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