On cost-effectiveness analysis, quality-adjusted life years, and cost-effectiveness threshold values of gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel versus gemcitabine alone in metastatic pancreatic cancer in the French setting. [PDF]
Ther Adv Med OncolLazzaro C.
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Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2023 This paper explores the symbolic and material implications of the use of DALYs and QALYs as priority or tie-breaker criteria in triage decisions. It aims to answer the question of their ethical permissibility based on the particular case of the COVID-19
Lautaro Leani, Ignacio Mastroleo
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Fair Funding Decisions: Consistency of the Time Horizons Used in the Calculation of Quality-Adjusted Life Years for Therapies for Very Rare Diseases by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthBarman-Aksözen J +7 more
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Office Examinations-Directed Treatment Paradigms Reduce Travel Burden, Decrease Treatment Cost, and Improve Quality-Adjusted Life-Years for Patients With Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration Undergoing Antivascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapy. [PDF]
J Vitreoretin Dis, 2020 Emerson GG +5 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life Years After Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: Health-Related Quality of Life After 12,782 Joint Replacements. [PDF]
JB JS Open Access, 2018 Konopka JF, Lee YY, Su EP, McLawhorn AS.
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Quality adjusted life years in the time of COVID-19 [PDF]
Australian Health Review, 2021 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) as a basis of valuing additional expenditure on health is widely accepted. Although early in the COVID-19 pandemic, several commentators called for a similar approach in resolving trade-offs between economic activity and reducing the burden of COVID-19, this has not occurred.
Hall, Jane, Viney, Rosalie
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Health economics and health preference concepts to orthopedics practitioners [PDF]
Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2014 The aim of this study was to describe concepts of health economics in order to update and provide the orthopedic practitioner decision making parameters based on preferences.
Carlos Delano Mundim Araújo +5 more
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Cost Analysis of a Digital Multimodal Cancer Prehabilitation
Current Oncology, 2022 Introduction: There is growing evidence that prehabilitation programmes effectively improve the physical and psychological conditions of cancer patients awaiting treatment. During the pandemic, people with cancer were classed as vulnerable.
Evdoxia Gkaintatzi +5 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate whether tenofovir prophylaxis for mothers with high viral loads in late pregnancy is a cost-effective way to prevent mother-to-child hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission in China.
Juan Yin +6 more
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Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model [PDF]
Health Economics, 2021 AbstractThe interest in multivariate and higher‐order risk preferences has increased. A growing body of literature has demonstrated the relevance and impact of these preferences, but for health the evidence is lacking. We measure multivariate and higher‐order risk preferences for quality of life (QoL) and longevity, the two attributes of the Quality ...
Attema, Arthur E. +2 more
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