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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...
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BACKGROUND Perhaps the most persuasive messages promoting screening mammography come from women who argue that the test "saved my life." Because other possibilities exist, we sought to determine how often lives were actually saved by mammography screening. METHODS We created a simple method to estimate the probability that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer has had her life saved beca...
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abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...
15 صفحه اولAn alternative to QALYs: the saved young life equivalent (SAVE)
Quality adjusted life years (QALYs) are based on the concept that the effectiveness of a health care programme is greater the more significant the health improvements it provides, the longer the patients get to enjoy the improvements, and the more patients who are helped.'`4 The concept is put into practice in the so called health status index approach: life years in different states of illness...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0160-9289
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960270804