Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years
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Problems and solutions in calculating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)
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. The QALY calculation is simple: the change in utility value induced by the treatment is multiplied by the duration of the treatment effect to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdg003