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 ...
MacKillop E, Sheard S.
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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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Quality-Adjusted Life Years After Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
JB & JS open access, 2018 Background: The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is the preferred outcome measurement for cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. QALYs measure patient health-related quality of life with use of a value between 0 and 1.
Joseph F. Konopka +3 more
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Re: ''Risk and benefit of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for the omicron variant by age, sex, and presence of comorbidity: a quality-adjusted life years analysis''. [PDF]
Am J Epidemiol, 2023 Lataster R.
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Deriving monetary value of quality-adjusted life years through life extension from the value of a statistical life [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo address the recent rise in healthcare expenditure due to an aging population, the rational allocation and efficient use of resources, based on scientific evidence, have become indispensable.
Yusuke Tanizawa +2 more
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Are Quality-Adjusted Life Years a Good Proxy Measure of Individual Capabilities? [PDF]
Pharmacoeconomics, 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.
Mitchell PM +4 more
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Estimation of Quality-adjusted Life Years alongside clinical trials: the impact of 'time-effects' on trial results. [PDF]
J Pharm Health Serv Res, 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.
Touray MML.
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Quality-Adjusted Life-Years without Constant Proportionality [PDF]
Value in Health, 2018 A quality-adjusted life-year is a common unit of measurement in health valuation. Under its constant proportionality assumption, the value of a quality-adjusted life span is defined as the product of preference weight and life span.To empirically identify an alternative functional relationship between life span and value by relaxing the constant ...
Craig, Benjamin M. +3 more
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Converting Evidence-Based Summary of Findings Evidence Tables Into Decision Analytical, Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) and Life Expectancies Metrics: A Tutorial. [PDF]
J Eval Clin PractHozo I, Guyatt G, Djulbegovic B.
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