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10120196

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-10-6
pubmed:abstractText
In recent years QALYs (quality adjusted life years) have achieved considerable fame or perhaps even notoriety in health services policy making. Yet little has been done to date to assess the potential benefit in policy terms of studies that have used cost-utility analysis (CUA). It was in recognition of this fact that this particular investigation was undertaken. An evaluation of 51 cost-utility studies is reported in the paper. Several criteria were applied to each study including aspects of technical and policy relevance. The main findings were: few studies had been undertaken; they were limited to few areas of health care; their technical execution was often of poor quality; the majority of studies used the empirical findings of health state valuations obtained from original developers of different quality of life techniques; and many claimed their results to be 'favourable' (i.e. efficient interventions). This claim, however, is misguided because individual results get fed into generalised QALY league tables which ignore the context of specific studies and use results not performed on a common basis. Consequently, the state of the applied art of CUA is currently open to considerable question.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0168-8510
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
249-79
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Cost-utility in practice: a policy maker's guide to the state of the art.
pubmed:affiliation
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review