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The use of QALYs in health service planning
Author(s) -
Allen D.,
Lee R. H.,
Lowson K.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.4740040403
Subject(s) - health services , service (business) , quality adjusted life year , business , operations research , medicine , cost effectiveness , environmental health , marketing , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , population
There has been substantial interest in recent years, among research workers and in health service management, in the potential use of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) as an aid to decision‐making about the development of services and use of resources in health services (Gudex, 1986; Drummond, 1986). In 1986 the North Western Regional Health Authority (RHA) initiated the first large‐scale attempt to use QALYs as a practical aid to planning in the National Health Service. This paper draws on the experience of the North Western RHA in examining some methodological and practical issues relating to the future of QALYs as an aid to decision‐making in the Health Service.