HYEs: Do We Need Them and Can They Fulfil the Promise?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-216

  Gafni, Amiram ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION TREES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030184731     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9601600303     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Wakker P. A criticism of healthy-years equivalents Med Decis Making 1996, 16. 207-14.
2. Mehrez A., Gafni A. Quality-adjusted life-years, utility theory and healthy-years equivalents Med Decis Making 1989, 9 142-149.
3. Gafni A., Birch S., Mehrez A. Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs J Health Econ. 1993, 11 325-39.
4. Gafni A. Time in health: can we measure individuals’ pure time preferences? Med Decis Making. 1995, 15: 31-37.
5. Johannesson M. The ranking properties of healthy-years equivalents and quality-adjusted life years under certainty and uncertainty. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 1995; 11 40-48.
6. Loewenstein G., Prelect D. Negative time preference. Am Econ Rev. 1991; 81 347-52.
7. Broome J. QALYs J Public Econ. 1993; 50. 149-67.
8. Johannesson M., Pliskin JS, Weinstein MC A note on QALYs, time trade-off and discounting Med Decis Making. 1994, 14. 188-92.