QALY maximisation and people's preferenc
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Paul Dolan; Rebecca Shaw; Aki Tsuchiya; Alan Williams
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In costβutility analysis, the numbers of qualityβadjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated according to the sumβranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that the social value from health improvements is a simple product of gains in quality of life, length of life and t