Valuing Health in Practice: Priorities, Qalys, and Choice

ISBN-13: 9781138721708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Douglas McCulloch

Opis

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 explained. On the basis of some of the problems identified, a new QALY-based approach to resource allocation is developed, and other methods of priority setting are explained, ranging from heart surgery to Alzheimer's Disease.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Douglas McCulloch