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Are Quality-Adjusted Life Years a Good Proxy Measure of Individual Capabilities?

BACKGROUND: There is a debate in the health economics literature concerning the most appropriate way of applying Amartya Sen’s capability approach in economic evaluation studies. Some suggest that quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) alone are adequate while others argue that this approach is too nar...

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Autores principales: Mitchell, Paul Mark, Venkatapuram, Sridhar, Richardson, Jeff, Iezzi, Angelo, Coast, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28238151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40273-017-0495-3