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Quality Adjusted Life Year — QALY QALY est l acronyme anglais de Quality Adjusted Life Year ou année de vie ajustée par sa qualité. Cette notion a été proposée en 1977 par Weinstein et Stason. Elle est issue de l application au champ de la santé de la théorie de l utilité en … Wikipédia en Français
Quality-adjusted life years — Quality adjusted life years, or QALYs, is a way of measuring disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived, as a means of quantifying in benefit of a medical intervention. The QALY model requires utility independent,… … Wikipedia
Disability-adjusted life year — for all causes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.[1] … Wikipedia
Disability-adjusted life years — (DALY) is a measure for the overall disease burden. Originally developed by the World Health Organization, it is becoming increasingly common in the field of public health and health impact assessment (HIA). It is designed to quantify the impact… … Wikipedia
QALY — Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is considered equal to 1.0 QALY. The value of a year in ill health would be discounted. For example, a year bedridden might have a value… … Medical dictionary
QALY — est l acronyme anglais de « Quality Adjusted Life Year » ou « année de vie ajustée par sa qualité ». Cet indicateur économique visant à estimer la valeur de la vie a été proposé en 1977 par Weinstein et Stason. Il est issue de … Wikipédia en Français
QALY — Quality Adjusted Life Year (Miscellaneous » Unit Measures) Quality Adjusted Life Year (Governmental » US Government) Quality Adjusted Life Year (Medical » Oncology) … Abbreviations dictionary
QALY — /kwolˈi or kāˈli/ abbrev Quality adjusted life year, a cost benefit unit used to assess different surgical operations and medical treatments in terms of the length and quality of life they produce, measured against their cost … Useful english dictionary
QALY — technical quality adjusted life year a way of measuring how much improvement in their health someone is likely to get as a result of having a particular type of medical treatment in the National Health Service in Britain … Dictionary of contemporary English
QALY — • quality adjusted life year … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
