The objectives of contemporary medicine are basically to attenuate the consequences of
chronic diseases and to improve the quality of life of the patient. All medical disciplines tend …

Individual preferences are now at the center of the medical decision-making process.
Different experimental methods are being used to reveal them. Psychometricians use direct …

The article discusses the proposai of some health economists to use the «cost per QALY
(qualityadjusted-life year)» ratio as an universal indicator for economic assessment of medi …

This paper seeks to highlight some of the critical issues concerning the use of the Quality
Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) to measure the outcome of health care choices, in decisions …

Background Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) have been used since the 1980s as a
standard health outcome measure for conducting cost-utility analyses, which are often …

A fundamental assumption of the quality‐adjusted life year model is mutual utility
independence between life years and health status. However, this assumption may not hold …

Decisions about medical treatment and health programmes involve both technical and value
judgements. For the purpose of performing an economic appraisal of different health …

The numbers of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are increasingly being used to
represent the gains in individual utility from treatment. This requires that the value of a health …

In cost-utility analysis results are often processed in terms of QALY (Quality Adjusted Life
Year). The duration of a given health state is weighted with a coefficient calculated based on …

Background Recent research suggests that the value of health states may depend on their
duration, implying a more complex relationship between quality and quantity of life than the …