Estimating Quality-Adjusted Life-Year Loss Due to Noncommunicable Diseases in Korean Adults through to the Year 2040
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Adding Extrinsic Goals to the Quality-Adjusted Life Year Model
M for evaluating health quality are central to medical decision analyses. The most important such method is the quality-adjusted life year (QALY), in which a patient’s length of life is given weight proportional to his/her quality of health. QALYs have become ubiquitous in medical cost-effectiveness as a measure of preference for health outcomes. However, numerous studies have demonstrated that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Value in Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1098-3015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.09.008