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.
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Johannesson, Magnus
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What Matters for Well-Being: Individual Perceptions of Quality of Life Before and After Important Life Events [PDF]
, 2012 In recent decades, what matters for individual quality of life (QoL) has increasingly been the focus of empirical social science research. However, individuals are rarely asked directly what is important for their quality of life as part of large-scale ...
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Eliciting a value set for the Swedish capability-adjusted life years instrument (CALY-SWE) [PDF]
, 2023 Purpose: Our aim was to elicit a value set for Capability-Adjusted Life Years Sweden (CALY-SWE); a capability-grounded quality of life instrument intended for use in economic evaluations of social interventions with broad consequences beyond health ...
Norström, Fredrik +23 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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Methodological challenges surrounding QALY estimation for paediatric economic evaluation
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022 Cost-utility analysis remains the preferred form of economic evaluation for health technology assessment, pricing and reimbursement authorities in several countries. The results of cost-utility analyses are commonly expressed in terms of incremental cost
Stavros Petrou
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based COVID-19 health impact assessment: a systematic review
, 2023 Background The emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in health, socio-economic, and political crises. The overall health impact of this disease can be measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) which is the sum of the life years lost due to ...
Islam, Md Shahidul +3 more
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Estimation of Utility Weights for Prostate-related Health States in Korea [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2022 Objectives Very limited previous research has investigated the utility weights of prostate-related diseases in the general population in Korea. The purpose of this study was to calculate the utility of prostate-related health states in the Korean general
Seon-Ha Kim +3 more
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Problems and solutions in calculating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)
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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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of delgocitinib in adult patients with atopic dermatitis in Japan
Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy, 2021 Objectives This study evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of delgocitinib relative to moisturization therapy in adult patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Methods The analysis was performed by using the simulation model with the patient‐level
Motoi Takenaka +7 more
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Community consultation for quality of life in Wales [PDF]
Community Voices Cardiff was part of a UK-wide research project, Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL) funded by the Arts and Humanities and Research Council. CCQOL was initiated by Professor Flora Samuel, based on the belief that creating
McVicar, Mhairi +2 more
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