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Practical Neurology, 2008
Many health systems now use cost-effectiveness analysis to decide which interventions and programmes to fund. A key issue for such decision making is how to measure health outcomes from interventions to reflect changes in both health-related quality of life and life expectancy.
Yolanda Bravo Vergel, Mark Sculpher
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Many health systems now use cost-effectiveness analysis to decide which interventions and programmes to fund. A key issue for such decision making is how to measure health outcomes from interventions to reflect changes in both health-related quality of life and life expectancy.
Yolanda Bravo Vergel, Mark Sculpher
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Utilities and Quality-Adjusted Life Years
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1989Utilities and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are reviewed, with particular focus on their use in technology assessment. This article provides a broad overview and perspective on these two techniques and their interrelationship, with reference to other sources for details of implementation.
David Feeny, George W. Torrance
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Quality adjusted life years as expected utilities [PDF]
Spanish Economic Review, 2000 Abstract. This article is intended to systematicaly show all the conditions that the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) must satisfy so that it can be interpreted as a von Newman-Morgenstern utility. Such conditions cover two cases. When health states are chronic, we shall be referring to the conditions inferred by Pliskin, Shepard and Weinstein (1980).
José Ma. Abellán Perpiñán +1 more
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Not all “quality-adjusted life years” are equal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2007There is evidence that utility elicitation methods used in the calculation of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) yield different results. It is not clear how these differences impact economic evaluations.Using a mathematical model incorporating data on efficacy, costs, and utility values, we simulated the experiences of 100,000 hypothetical rheumatoid
John M. Esdaile +10 more
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Methods for quality adjustment of life years
Social Science & Medicine, 1992Several valuation techniques are in use for quality adjusting life years in cost utility analysis. The paper gives an overview of the variability in results. A close inspection of a number of instruments with respect to their theme, instructions, decision framing and the phrasing of questions make many of the observed differences in results ...
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The importance of Perspective in the Measurement of Quality-adjusted Life Years
Medical Decision Making, 1997Scaling instruments for the measurement of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) incor porate either a personal or an impersonal perspective on the benefits of a health intervention and either do or do not incorporate considerations of equity. This paper sets out three hypotheses concerning perspective and equity: 1) that more equally distributed ...
Eric J Nord, Jeff Richardson
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Cost-Utility Analysis and Quality Adjusted Life Years
Journal Of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2005Cost utility analysis is a form of cost-effectiveness analysis in which outcomes are adjusted for quality and quantity of life. This type of analysis is used widely in Europe and is being used increasingly in the United States. This article provides an overview of cost utility analysis and quality adjusted life years, a commonly used effectiveness ...
Vijay N. Joish, Gary M. Oderda
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Quality-adjusted Life Years, Utility Theory, and Healthy-years Equivalents
Medical Decision Making, 1989Decisions about medical treatments and the settings of health programs are not purely technical, but also involve issues of value such as the evaluation of trade-offs between quality of life (morbidity) and quantity of life (mortality). The most commonly used measure of outcome in such cases is the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).
Abraham Mehrez, Amiram Gafni
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