The metric of disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) has become the global standard of
measuring burden of disease. DALYs are comprised of years of life lost due to premature …

Purpose To describe anticipated health-related quality of life (HRQL) for different
hypothetical strategies of febrile neutropenia (FN) management in adult cancer patients …

Background: When assessing health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) in elderly patients with
heart failure (HF), the process of obtaining quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) weights is …

Objectives. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is essential for the comparison of treatments
for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). CEA centres on accurate measurement of health utility (HU) …

Objective Utility values enable relative comparisons across various health conditions,
providing information for efficient allocation of healthcare resources. This study aimed to (1) …

Abstract Introduction EuroQol‐5‐dimensions‐5‐levels (EQ‐5D‐5L), visual analog scale
(VAS), time trade‐off (TTO), and standard gamble (SG) are used for the assessment of …

This is the 22nd and final article in the series designed by the American College of
Radiology (ACR), the Canadian Association of Radiologists, and the American Journal of …

Background New developments in medications for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) can be of
great benefit to patients, but unfortunately these medicines also increase expenditures. Cost …

Background. Because survival differences between surgical and nonsurgical treatment for
head and neck cancer (HNC) are hard to detect, increasing focus has been placed on …

Purpose To systematically review the literature to determine if utilities (a quantitative way to
express patient preferences for health outcomes) have been measured in hand surgery …