Within a disease area the QALY is an indispensable measure of comparative benefit. And, in fact, across disease areas with similar sets of impacts and considerations, the QALY is invaluable. It ...

The QALY (Quality-Adjusted-Life-Year) getty. In late March, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced H.R. 485 - Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act - on a party line vote with ...

On February 7, 2024, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act (HR 485). We believe the bill would compromise the evaluation of medical treatments. Here ...

The QALY, aka the quality-adjusted life year, assigns a subjective value to a year of perfect health. That's a problem for drug cost-effectiveness reviews. Skip to Main Content.

The QALY’s wide acceptance notwithstanding, there is a minority view that it undervalues what a drug does for patients and thus threatens the future development of drugs to treat rare and ...

Panelists at a session of the ISPOR 2019 annual meeting discussed the good and the bad about the quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) metric from their various perspectives.

A QALY is calculated by taking the additional life expectancy conferred by a treatment and multiplying it by a value between 0 and 1 that represents the quality of that additional life expectancy.

QALY-boosters say that by converting life years into dollar values it is easy to make such comparisons. But they have either forgotten – or never learnt – their basic first-year microeconomic ...

Given the limitations of the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) measure, Eleanor M. Perfetto, PhD, MS, senior vice president of Strategic Initiatives for the National Health Council, outlines ...