A framework for extending the health-related quality adjusted life year by combining instruments [PDF]
Current measurement systems focus mostly on health, and not on multiple constructs of quality of life outcomes (for example health and social outcomes) together.
Brendan Mulhern +6 more
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Willingness to pay for one quality-adjusted life year in Iran [PDF]
Background Recent years have witnessed a strong tendency to apply economic evidence as a guide for making health resource allocation decisions, especially those related to reimbursement policies.
Najmeh Moradi +5 more
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Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year in Iran: a systematic review [PDF]
Background The monetary value assigned to a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) serves as a fundamental threshold in cost-effectiveness evaluations, contributing to informing resource allocation decisions within healthcare systems given the more severe ...
Reza Hashempour +5 more
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Quality-adjusted life year weights and treatment bias: Theory and evidence from cognitive interviews [PDF]
Objectives: The purpose of this research is to understand the thought processes that underpin responses to stated preference approaches for eliciting quality of life, in particular the standard gamble.
Bryan N Patenaude, Till Bärnighausen
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Habilitation of Child with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2: A Case Report
Spinal Muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neuromuscular disorder which is a hereditary genetic disease. It is an incurable disease due to a defect in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene.
Marietta Shanti Prananta +2 more
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Effects of Chronic Diseases on Quality Adjusted Life Year and Economic Losses of the Elderly [PDF]
Background Chronic diseases have become an important public health problem that affects the economic and social development of country and population health. Quantifying the disease and economic burden of the elderly can provide a better understanding of
Xinyue ZHAO, Xiao ZHENG, Yaqing XUE, Weiwei WU, Jiao LU, Chichen ZHANG
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Economic burden of the novel coronavirus infection: a systematic review
Background. The sudden emergence and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) caused tremendous burden on the health care system including the economic one.
V. M. Timiryanova +3 more
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Measuring the Benefits of Healthcare: DALYs and QALYs – Does the Choice of Measure Matter? A Case Study of Two Preventive Interventions [PDF]
Background The measurement of health benefits is a key issue in health economic evaluations. There is very scarce empirical literature exploring the differences of using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as ...
Federico Augustovski +8 more
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Objective: To provide a systematic review of the literature and knowledge base of cost per quality-adjusted life year of physical rehabilitation and care of older persons after hip fracture.
Jonas Ammundsen Ipsen +5 more
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Background One of the most commonly used types of evaluation methods is cost-utility analysis (CUA), using the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) indicator as a preference-based measure for assessing effects of a given programme.
Ewa Kocot +2 more
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