… of life and quality of life. Gains in quantity of life can be measured in terms of life years …
Gains in quality of life should be measured using a broad definition of health that incorporates …

… of trade-offs between quality of life (morbidity) and quantity of life (mortality). The most …
quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The authors show that QALYs, being a health status index…

… Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs… health utility score is necessary to evaluate QALYs. The
objective of this study was to predict a summary utility score (represented by the Health Utility …

… expectancy, which is the focus of this study, estimates of overall life expectancy or life
years lived are adjusted according to the amount of time spent in less than perfect …

… life years, disability-adjusted life years). I derive the utility function that is admissible
when preferences for health and longevity, conditional on wealth, are consistent with any life-year …

… of life and also the impact on their health-related quality of life (… The quality-adjusted life year
(QALY) has been developed in … used in health economics as a summary measure of health …

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to identify, in a systematic literature review,
published studies having used quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) based on actual …

… who were younger than 16 years and published before April … Panel on Cost-Effectiveness
in Health and Medicine and the … a generic health state classification system (eg, Health Utility …

… -based health status (utility) data are used to generate quality adjusted life years (QALYs).
A literature review was carried out which identified 23 published cost utility analyses suitable …

… In health economics, utilities are typically combined with survival estimates and aggregated
… adjusted lifeyears (QALYs) for use in cost–utility analyses of healthcare interventions (Box 1).…