1st Edition
Valuing Health in Practice Priorities QALYs and Choice
By Douglas McCulloch
Copyright 2002
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
864 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002. Most of those working in health services are aware of scarcity and the need for choice, and many also know that health sector choices in the future may be made on a "cost per quality-adjusted-life-year" (QALY) basis. This volume explains health service choice, focusing in particular on the QALY success story, and the merits and drawbacks of this measure are... Read more
Priorities, QALYs, and choice; the quality-adjusted life year; two QALY measures; testing a QALY measure; comparing procedures using QALY values; using QALYs in practice; the case of Alzheimer's disease; ASTEC evidence; review.
Biography
Douglas McCulloch
