Burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among nursing professionals in Brazil [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021 Objective: Estimate the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among nursing professionals in Brazil. Method: Ecological study using data from the Nursing Observatory.
Roberto Carlos Lyra da Silva +5 more
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How to allocate scarce health resources without discriminating against people with disabilities [PDF]
, 2016 One widely used method for allocating health care resources involves the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to rank treatments in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained.
John, Tyler M. +2 more
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Modelling the cost effectiveness of interferon beta and glatiramer acetate in the management of multiple sclerosis [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of four disease modifying treatments (interferon betas and glatiramer acetate) for relapsing remitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in the United Kingdom. DESIGN: Modelling cost effectiveness.
Abrams, K. +6 more
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Fundamental Measurement: The Need Fulfilment Quality of Life (N-QOL) Measure
INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2021 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) has serious problems related to its failure to adhere to measurement theory. If a QALY is to be meaningful, the utility score that translates time spent to an equivalent time spent in so-called perfect health must ...
Paul C. Langley, Stephen P. McKenna
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Continence Across Continents To Upend Stigma and Dependency (CACTUS-D): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Urinary incontinence occurs in 40 % of women aged 65 years and over; however, only 15 % seek care and many delay healthcare seeking for years.
Fritel, Xavier +6 more
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Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021 [Background] As estimated by the World Health Organization, depressive disorders will be the leading contributor to the Global Burden of Disease by 2030.
Laura Ulbrich, Christoph Kröger
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Improving on quality adjusted life years measurements for health outcomes [PDF]
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2009 Sarah S. Long
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Willingness to Pay for a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year: The Individual Perspective [PDF]
Value in Health, 2010 The aim of this study was to elicit the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY).In a Web-based questionnaire containing contingent valuation exercises, respondents valued health changes in five scenarios. In each scenario, the respondents first valued two health states on a visual analog scale (VAS) and expressed ...
Ana Bobinac +3 more
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Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years [PDF]
Journal of Public Health, 2003 Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different from one another and all suffer from serious inherent biases.
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Laparoscopic versus open colorectal resection for cancer and polyps: A cost-effectiveness study [PDF]
, 2014 Methods: Participants were recruited in 2006-2007 in a district general hospital in the south of England; those with a diagnosis of cancer or polyps were included in the analysis.
Dowson, H +4 more
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