Burden of Disease in Asian Countries and the use of Disability-Adjusted Life-Years and Quality-Adjusted Life-Years.
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• Both QALYs and DALYs are also usually discounted, meaning more weight can be given to immediate over distant outcomes, and both measures can account for disease severity. The two measures however are not interchangeable.1 For example, DALYs incorporate an age-weighting function, which assigns lower weights to the years of the young and elderly, and the origins of disability and quality of life weights differ significantly.1,2
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
دوره 17 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014