Gafni, Amiram; Birch, Stephen; O'Brien, Bernie - Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis … - 1995
Recent publications have acknowledged the theoretical superiority of the healthy years equivalent (HYE) concept over quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), but have raised questions about the practicality of measuring them. We describe a simple, two-stage, lottery-based approach to measure HYEs...