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QALYs versus HYEs - a theoretical exposition

Culyer, Tony J; Wagstaff, Adam - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1992

There has been a vigorous dispute about quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and it has been argued that they are an inappropriate measure of patient utility and that a more efficient approach is to measure outcomes in terms of health year equivalents (HYEs). This paper explores the theoretical...

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Comparing scaling methods for health state valuations - Rosser revisited

Gudex, Claire; Kind, Paul; Dalen, Harmanna van; Durand, … - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1993

method is the preferred technique. Many of the cost-per-QALY estimates produced in the United Kingdom have been based on the … presentation of method and interviewer bias. It appears from a reworking of cost-per-QALY estimates using these ‘new’ matrices that … the precise “quality-adjustments” used in QALY estimates do matter. Given that no-one is yet in a position to claim to …

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Health economics, priority setting and medical ethics: implications for multiple sclerosis

WIlliams, Alan - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1990

The need for priority setting in health care systems has forced us to think more carefully about objectives and opportunity costs. If our objective is the maximisation of the health of the community, for this to be an effective guide to action we have to find some practical way of describing and...

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The QALY toolkit

Gudex, Claire; Kind, Paul - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1988

which yields Rosser ratings has been developed by the York QALY team for use in survey settings. The questionnaire is … the costs and outcomes of therapies and programmes competing for scarce and limited resources. This QALY toolkit, in …

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Economics, QALYs and medical ethics: a health economist's perspective

Williams, Alan - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1994

maximise the benefits of health. After explaining briefly what the cost-per-QALY criterion means, a series of ethical …

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The role of the Euroqol instrument in QALY calculations

Williams, Alan - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1995

The EuroQol measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has many purposes other than the calculation of QALYs, but it is upon that particular use that this paper concentrates. For that purpose a simple generic measure yielding a single index score for each health state is required. The...

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