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Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs)

Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are central to healthcare decision-making in Britain and abroad, yet their history is poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that a more in-depth and political history of the QALY is needed to allow a critical evaluation of its current dominance. Exploiting ri...

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Autores principales: MacKillop, Eleanor, Sheard, Sally
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6079188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30015244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.004