Total knee arthroplasty improves the quality-adjusted life years in patients who exceeded their estimated life expectancy. [PDF]
Int Orthop, 2021 Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the treatment of choice for end-stage osteoarthritis though its risk-benefit ratio in elderly patients remains debated. This study aimed to evaluate the functional outcome, rates of complication and mortality, and quality-
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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 OBJECTIVES We quantified the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost attributable to chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in the US, by sex and age group.
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Physical Inactivity in a US Population With Osteoarthritis. [PDF]
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 One‐half of the 14 million persons in the US with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are not physically active, despite evidence that physical activity (PA) is associated with improved health. We undertook this study to estimate both the quality‐adjusted life‐year
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Projections of costs and quality adjusted life years lost due to dementia from 2020 to 2050: A population‐based microsimulation study [PDF]
Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2023 Efficient healthcare planning requires reliable projections of the future increase in costs and quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) lost due to dementia.
Chiara C. Brück +3 more
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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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Quality adjusted life years based on health and consumption: A summary wellbeing measure for cross-sectoral economic evaluation. [PDF]
Health Econ, 2021 We introduce a summary wellbeing measure for economic evaluation of cross‐sectoral public policies with impacts on health and living standards. We show how to calculate period‐specific and lifetime wellbeing using quality‐adjusted life years based on ...
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How Should Willingness-to-Pay Values of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Be Updated and According to Whom? [PDF]
AMA journal of ethics, 2021 Before updating any willingness-to-pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) threshold, a few points must be recognized. Ethical justification for using WTP thresholds and QALYs lies in incorporating the preferences of those whose treatment could ...
Paul T. Menzel
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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.
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Impact of mental disorders and chronic physical conditions on quality-adjusted life years in Singapore. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 The current study aims to evaluate the burden of disease in Singapore by estimating the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost due to mental disorders and chronic physical conditions.
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Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life-Years When Health Fluctuates [PDF]
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. Fluctuations and associated duration of symptoms can be predictable (eg, side effects of chemotherapy treatment) or unpredictable (eg, relapse in multiple sclerosis). Such recurrent fluctuations in
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