-effectiveness criterion of dollars per Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY), where the quality adjustement factors for years lived in ill health …, CUA can be used to attain second-best efficiency in the sense of meeting a given QALY target at minimum social cost. It … also qualifies Meltzer's (1997) result that the cost per QALY for life-saving medical interventions should include the …

gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one version of the survey exactly copied the questionnaire used in the …

. 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 …

capita total costs versus quality-adjusted life years (QALY) under various intervention policies. Our results show that … each person up to 4.04 days worth of QALY while incurring $3,284.67 for him/her. Had the states undertaken more strict … policies during the same time frame than those they adopted, the increase in the average QALY and cost per person would be up …