Problems and solutions in calculating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) [PDF]
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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The quality-adjusted life-years in the oncological patients’ health-related quality of life [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The oncological treatment can significantly affect patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which should be monitored to ensure our patients’ well-being.
Karolina Kucnerowicz +6 more
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Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs). [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 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 evaluation of its current dominance.
MacKillop E, Sheard S.
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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.
Ulf‐G. Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson
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Measurement of Quality of Life VI. Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) is an Unfortunate Use of the Quality-of-Life Concept [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2003 The QALY (quality-adjusted life years) attempts to incorporate the dimension of quality of life into the evaluation by adjusting life years by a quality factor.
Soren Ventegodt +2 more
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Reference-dependent age weighting of quality-adjusted life years. [PDF]
Health Econ, 2022 ABSTRACTPeople do not only care about maximizing health gains but also about their distribution. For example, they give more weight to younger patients than older patients. This pilot study aims to investigate if age weighting is reinforced by loss aversion if young people are falling behind one's perceived ‘normal’ quality of life (QoL), while older ...
Attema AE, Brouwer WBF, Pinto-Prades JL.
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The Impact of Ankle Arthritis Treatment on Quality Adjusted Life Years [PDF]
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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Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2021 Context: The Indian government is dispensing newer direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs, which may have impact on hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients’ quality of life (QoL).
Bhavya H Vyas +4 more
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Author Correction: The quality-adjusted life-years in the oncological patients’ health-related quality of life [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Karolina Kucnerowicz +6 more
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The Estimated Lifetime Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States in 2018. [PDF]
J Infect Dis, 2023 Li Y +9 more
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