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Quality-adjusted life years — Quality adjusted life years, or QALYs, is a way of measuring disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived, as a means of quantifying in benefit of a medical intervention. The QALY model requires utility independent,… … Wikipedia
Quality Adjusted Life Years — (QALYs) A measure, developed by health economists, which incorporates an assessment of quality of life into life expectancies. The aim is to facilitate resource allocation using cost benefit analysis , by providing a single measure of the value… … Dictionary of sociology
Disability-adjusted life years — (DALY) is a measure for the overall disease burden. Originally developed by the World Health Organization, it is becoming increasingly common in the field of public health and health impact assessment (HIA). It is designed to quantify the impact… … Wikipedia
quality of life — a measure of a person s wellbeing that is often used to determine who will benefit most from a treatment and, on this basis, who should receive priority where resources are scarce. In such cases a calculation of quality adjusted life years… … The new mediacal dictionary
Disability-adjusted life year — for all causes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.[1] … Wikipedia
Life expectancy — This article is about the measure of remaining life. For the Dean Koontz novel, see Life Expectancy (novel). For List of countries by life expectancy, see List of countries by life expectancy. Life expectancy is the expected (in the statistical… … Wikipedia
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
QUALYs — quality adjusted life years … Medical dictionary
QUALYs — • quality adjusted life years … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
QALY — Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is considered equal to 1.0 QALY. The value of a year in ill health would be discounted. For example, a year bedridden might have a value… … Medical dictionary
QALYs — quality adjusted life years. See: quality of life … The new mediacal dictionary
