Quality-adjusted life years: population-specific measurement of the quality component.
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چکیده
The ever-increasing demand on health care services results in a growing demand for appropriate methods of measuring and valuing the benefits of health care interventions (cost-effectiveness) in order to formulate policies. In Hong Kong, there is little explicit information to guide policymaking on which treatments to offer and what priority to allocate to differing sectors of the health care system.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi
دوره 17 Suppl 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011