#qaly — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #qaly, aggregated by home.social.
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This #CostUtilityAnalysis of 'academic detailing' to enhance naloxone distribution for opioid users (i) shows it potentially cost-effective at WTP of US$50,000 per #QALY and (ii) it used #UtilityScores developed from #NIDA shared data*
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40258-025-00991-8* To develop these we used National Institute on Drug Abuse-published #RCT data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-024-03729-6To me an example how #DataSharing supports research for community infrastructure
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The #neoliberals are winning over all parties. If [UK] #Labour see “#health and #workinprogress as two sides of the same coin" they are valuing people only by #economic activity. As inhumane as the #Conservative party.
Valuing people as economic input, and #disabled people as worth less, opens up greater abuse when health and social resources are determined by #QALY and #DALY (quality / disability adjusted life years) measures.
People are not economic property.
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October issue of Quality of Life Research #ISOQOL
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/32-10Opens w a #ScopingReview of the use of the visual analogue scale for valuing #HealthStates, arguing that inconsistent design makes comparisons across studies challenging:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03411-3
#Psychometrics #HealthEconomics #QALYOr read about the #EvidenceGap map for interventions for improving clinical outcomes and #HRQL for people living with skeletal dysplasias
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03431-z -
Last week "Quality of Life Research" published 4 articles, for example:
#QALY estimation in #MentalHealth trials w #PHQ9, #GAD7 to #ReQoL, EQ5D:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03443-9
#HTA #HealthEconomicsExperiences of adults after late repair of tetralogy of fallot in a low-middle income country (Pakistan):
https://rdcu.be/deQ1y
#HRQL #LMICOnline first articles:
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/online-first
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Last week "Quality of Life Research" published 4 articles, for example:
#QALY estimation in #MentalHealth trials w #PHQ9, #GAD7 to #ReQoL, EQ5D:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03443-9
#HTA #HealthEconomicsExperiences of adults after late repair of tetralogy of fallot in a low-middle income country (Pakistan):
https://rdcu.be/deQ1y
#HRQL #LMICOnline first articles:
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/online-first
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Last week "Quality of Life Research" published 4 articles, for example:
#QALY estimation in #MentalHealth trials w #PHQ9, #GAD7 to #ReQoL, EQ5D:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03443-9
#HTA #HealthEconomicsExperiences of adults after late repair of tetralogy of fallot in a low-middle income country (Pakistan):
https://rdcu.be/deQ1y
#HRQL #LMICOnline first articles:
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/online-first
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CW: Healthcare in the U.S., call to action
Via Matthew Cortland (@mattbc) , lawyer and health care advocate, on the proposed ban of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY):
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers has a good bill that would address a potentially significant source of ableism in medicine. House Democrats need to get on board. -
During #EA’s brief history, self-avowed effective altruists have tended to take as the objects of moral assessment particular actions, while also taking as their core #value the sort of well-being capturable by the metrics of welfare economics.
One instrument that some have recommended for assessing actions in terms of well-being is the quality-adjusted-life-year or #QALY, an economic metric for health programmes, which integrates measures of the value of extending individuals’ lives with measures of the quality of life over the relevant period, with one QALY standing for one year of life in perfect health
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It feels great to stumble upon an #ACX post validating your own idea:
“I’m disappointed that no one has ever tried expanding the #QALY concept to things outside health care before. It’s not that I think it will work. It’s that I think it will fail to work in a different way than our naive opinions fail to work, and we might learn something from it.”
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/
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Ultimately, everything you do, don’t do, consume, use, avoid or covet should work towards that goal of maximising your #wellbeing or the well-being of others, right? What better unit than “QALY” for that?
“Currency” carries too much psychological and ideological baggage, and it keeps the spotlight in one very specific dimension (ie, money).
“Time” is better, but it ignores the vital distinction between time spent and time well spent (remember: it’s “live long and prosper” not just “live long”).
I know it sounds far-fetched right now, but a much more refined definition of #QALY could be used to estimate the expected value of all products, habits and public policies — and to measure their impact in hindsight.