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Utilities and Quality-Adjusted Life Years
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1989Utilities and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are reviewed, with particular focus on their use in technology assessment. This article provides a broad overview and perspective on these two techniques and their interrelationship, with reference to other sources for details of implementation.
G W, Torrance, D, Feeny
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Methods for quality adjustment of life years
Social Science & Medicine, 1992Several valuation techniques are in use for quality adjusting life years in cost utility analysis. The paper gives an overview of the variability in results. A close inspection of a number of instruments with respect to their theme, instructions, decision framing and the phrasing of questions make many of the observed differences in results ...
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The importance of Perspective in the Measurement of Quality-adjusted Life Years
Medical Decision Making, 1997Scaling instruments for the measurement of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) incor porate either a personal or an impersonal perspective on the benefits of a health intervention and either do or do not incorporate considerations of equity. This paper sets out three hypotheses concerning perspective and equity: 1) that more equally distributed ...
J, Richardson, E, Nord
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Cost per quality-adjusted life year and disability-adjusted life years: the need for a new paradigm
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 2003Two different paradigms have been proposed for setting priorities for access to healthcare: cost per quality-adjusted life year based on interventions, and disability-adjusted life years based on the burden of disease in a population. These formal paradigms make explicit the assumptions made implicitly every day in delivering and hence rationing access
Bevan, G, Hollinghurst, S
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quality-adjusted life-years (QALY)
2009syn. healthy-year equivalent (HYE); QALYs are calculated by multiplying the time spent in each health state by the value assigned to the particular health state; to calculate QALYs, numerical judgments of the desirability of various outcomes must be determined; these values are called “utilities” (with values between 0-death and 1-perfect health; very ...
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The Value of the Quality-Adjusted Life Years
Value in HealthRichard J, Willke +3 more
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