#QALY

In response to my presentation at #SMDM20, @TMSnowsill has raised the issue of treatments which extend life but provide zero health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL). How do the #QALY, #LY, #evLYG and

The QALY has limitations, but is it a form of racism? A thread 1/11 A recent multi-stakeholder treatise suggests so, using a tantalizingly straightforward-sounding logical flow: http://www.pipcpatients.org/uploads/1/2/9/0/12902828/dispariti

Lawrence H. Summers

I have a Viewpoint out in JAMA with my colleague @Cutler_econ – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus. It is particularly relevant today https://ja.ma/3diC0U9 1/13 We estimate the

My 1st *Tweetorial*! We investigated cost-effectiveness of adding SABR to standard tx for pts with oligometastatic dz. Manuscript out in #RedJournal!TL;DR – Adding SABR was robustly cost-effective under a wide

1/7 I did a basic search on PubMed for studies that considered cost of lock-down policies per quality-adjusted-life-year (QALY) saved. QALYs r measures that consider both quantity & quality of

1. 'Saving lives' sounds, as it is meant to, like a moral high principle, but, if you want to do that, best turn to God. Away from soteriology, what saving

Enrico Ferro, MD

Would you care for a pragmatic understanding of cost-effectiveness for new #cardiovascular drugs? In our new @Heart_BMJ article, we use 3 case studies to clarify key concepts like cost-effectiveness &

Quality adjusted life years, and their worth in dollar terms, have gotten a lot of attention in terms of how we should think about the costs of the lockdown.This is

Emilia Tjernström

A thread on #Covid19 & the @QandA debate.Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a useful tool for thinking about trade-offs b/w policy options.But assumptions matter hugely when we try to monetize non-monetary

Dr. Remington Nevin

For some perspective on recent events, at its worst, the rate of U.S. mortality from COVID-19 (20-30/100k) will still only be about half the years-long murder rate in Baltimore (50/100k).

Stanford skeptic Ioannidis is back with a new preprint.“People who die in nursing homes die in an median of 5 months, so it is likely that COVID-19 nursing home deaths

Some thoughts on Covid-19 and health econ. We know that policy choices about the lockdown involve weighing up the economic and social cost against the health benefits. So how do

In @TheCriticMag, I've set out the case for ending the lockdown on April 14th, the day after Easter Monday. Or if the Government must extend, by the following Monday so

En tråd om Sveriges dåliga siffror när det gäller dödsfall. Med fokus på jämförelse inom nordenDet är ingen tvekan om att Sveriges siffror är sämst men det är väldigt tröttsamt