The cost of healthcare interventions varies greatly with age, with a significant fraction of cost being spent in the last two years of life. Treating a child can save orders of magnitude more life-years than an octogenarian treated for the same disease, such as cancer. While Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) can be used to plan a roadmap for how resources should be expended to maximize quality of life the execution of those plans often fail due to societal norms which trump the carefully measured QALYs, resulting in lowered average number and/or quality of years lived. The ethical issues concerning age, sex, lifestyle (smoking, drinking, obesity), cost transparency, and extreme examples (war, population explosion vs. collapse) will be dis...
“QALYs” (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) are a metric for health and longevity very widely employed by ...
Methods for evaluating health quality are central to medical decision analyses. The most important s...
Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) have been used in the assessment of health interventions for thr...
This is the author accepted manuscriptObjectives: To assess whether recently-proposed alternatives t...
Background: Resource allocation decisions currently lack standard quantitative methods for incorpora...
AbstractObjectiveThe US Public Health Service Panel on Cost-Effectiveness has recommended the use of...
Introduction: The Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) is a recognised metric used to evaluate new and ...
Comparative valuation of different policy interventions often requires interpersonal comparability o...
In cost-utility analysis, the numbers of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated a...
QALY maximization is sometimes criticized for being ‘ageist’, because, other things being equal, the...
When valuing health states, health economists often ask respondents how many years of life in poor h...
Before the industrial revolution, living standards largely hinged on population size. With the adven...
Abstract The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a measure of the value of health outcomes. Since h...
The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is a metric for health and longevity that is now widely used...
This thesis examines the use quality adjusted life years (QALY'S) in the allocation of health care r...
“QALYs” (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) are a metric for health and longevity very widely employed by ...
Methods for evaluating health quality are central to medical decision analyses. The most important s...
Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) have been used in the assessment of health interventions for thr...
This is the author accepted manuscriptObjectives: To assess whether recently-proposed alternatives t...
Background: Resource allocation decisions currently lack standard quantitative methods for incorpora...
AbstractObjectiveThe US Public Health Service Panel on Cost-Effectiveness has recommended the use of...
Introduction: The Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) is a recognised metric used to evaluate new and ...
Comparative valuation of different policy interventions often requires interpersonal comparability o...
In cost-utility analysis, the numbers of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated a...
QALY maximization is sometimes criticized for being ‘ageist’, because, other things being equal, the...
When valuing health states, health economists often ask respondents how many years of life in poor h...
Before the industrial revolution, living standards largely hinged on population size. With the adven...
Abstract The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a measure of the value of health outcomes. Since h...
The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is a metric for health and longevity that is now widely used...
This thesis examines the use quality adjusted life years (QALY'S) in the allocation of health care r...
“QALYs” (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) are a metric for health and longevity very widely employed by ...
Methods for evaluating health quality are central to medical decision analyses. The most important s...
Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) have been used in the assessment of health interventions for thr...