Utility-based measures for health-related quality of life gain more and more importance in cost-effectiveness analysis …. The axiomatic foundation qualifies them as decision weights in use of the QALY concept. But their use is strained for they … reasonable to combine quality of life with length of life, those attributes fundamental to the QALY concept. One of those …

In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and … physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement …