Valuing Health in Practice

Priorities QALYs and Choice

Douglas McCulloch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-72170-8 (ISBN)

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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. The author explains the problems of health sector choice from first principles, in an approach that should be particularly useful to healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical industry managers, and students of economics.

Douglas McCulloch

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 219 mm
Gewicht	370 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-72170-0 / 1138721700
ISBN-13	978-1-138-72170-8 / 9781138721708
Zustand	Neuware