Are QALYs an appropriate measure for val
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Mohan V. Bala; Gary A. Zarkin
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In this paper, we examine the problems associated with using quality adjusted life years (QALYs) as the measure of effectiveness to evaluate interventions for acute conditions. We illustrate the way in which using commonly accepted benchmarks for costs per QALY, in order to adopt interventions for a