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Quality-Adjusted Life Year

A QALY measures health benefit as utility weight (0 = death, 1 = perfect health) multiplied by time lived. Developed by Alan Williams in 1985, QALYs enable comparison of disparate health interventions on a common metric. Used globally by health technology assessment bodies—NICE (UK), HAS (France), CADTH (Canada), WHO—to decide which treatments deserve public funding.

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Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / health-economics
  • Kind, P. (1989). The EuroQol instrument: an index of health-related quality of life. In B. Teeling Smith (Ed.), Measuring health: a practical approach. Chichester: Wiley. · URL
  • Weinstein, M. C., & Stason, W. B. (1976). Hypertension: A Policy Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. · URL
  • Brooks, R. (1996). EuroQol: the current state of play. Health Policy, 37(1), 53-72. · DOI 10.1016/0168-8510(96)00822-6
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