Use of quality-adjusted life years for the estimation of effectiveness of health care: A systematic literature review
| Autor: | Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Harri Sintonen, Risto O. Roine, Eija Roine, Virpi Semberg-Konttinen, Pirjo Räsänen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty Cost effectiveness Cost-Benefit Analysis MEDLINE CINAHL Cochrane Library 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Health care Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy 3. Good health Quality-adjusted life year Economics Medical Systematic review Family medicine Health Services Research Quality-Adjusted Life Years 0305 other medical science business Health Utilities Index Specialization |
| Zdroj: | International journal of technology assessment in health care. 22(2) |
| ISSN: | 0266-4623 |
| Popis: | Objectives: The objectives of this study were to identify, in a systematic literature review, published studies having used quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) based on actual measurements of patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and to determine which HRQoL instruments have been used to calculate QALYs. Furthermore, the aims were to characterize studies with regard to medical specialty, intervention studied, results obtained, quality, country of origin, QALY gain observed, and interpretation of results regarding cost-effectiveness.Methods: Systematic searches of the literature were made using the MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, SCI, and Cochrane Library electronic databases. Initial screening of identified articles was based on abstracts read independently by two of the authors; full-text articles were again evaluated by two authors, who made the final decision on which articles should be included.Results: The search identified 3,882 articles; 624 were obtained for closer review. Of the reviewed full-text articles, seventy reported QALYs based on actual before–after measurements using a valid HRQoL instrument. The most frequently used instrument was EuroQol HRQoL instrument (EQ-5D, 47.5 percent). Other instruments used were Health Utilities Index (HUI, 8.8 percent), the Rosser–Kind Index (6.3 percent), Quality of Well-Being (QWB, 6.3 percent), Short Form-6D (SF-6D, 5.0 percent), and 15D (2.5 percent). The rest (23.8 percent) used a direct valuation method: Time Trade-Off (10.0 percent), Standard Gamble (5.0 percent), visual analogue scale (5.0 percent), or rating scale (3.8 percent). The most frequently studied medical specialties were orthopedics (15.5 percent), pulmonary diseases (12.7 percent), and cardiology (9.9 percent). Ninety percent of the studies came from four countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, the Netherlands. Approximately half of the papers were methodologically high quality randomized trials. Forty-nine percent of the studied interventions were viewed by the authors of the original studies as being cost-effective; only 13 percent of interventions were deemed not to be cost-effective.Conclusions: Although QALYs gained are considered an important measure of effectiveness of health care, the number of studies in which QALYs are based on actual measurements of patients' HRQoL is still fairly limited. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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