How the defibrillator saved a patient's life

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

Life at a price: the implantable defibrillator.

How many lives is equity worth? A proposal for equity adjusted years of life saved.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To present a formula for equity adjusted years of life saved (EYLS). DESIGN A mailed questionnaire. The survey participants were given a scenario describing a trade off between a health maximization programme and a programme that is less efficient, but eliminates social inequalities. SETTING Swedish politicians responsible for health care in the county councils. PARTICIPAN...

Ethical issues on defibrillator deactivation in end-of-life patients.

How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation

It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the compute...