quality-adjusted life year
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Noun
quality-adjusted life year (plural quality-adjusted life years)
- (medicine, economics) A unit of measurement, equivalent to one year of life in perfect health, that can be used to decide whether a medical procedure is worthwhile for an individual.
- 2014, Anthony J. Culyer, The Dictionary of Health Economics, 3rd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 516:
- The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a generic measure of health-related quality of life that takes into account both the quantity and the quality of life generated by interventions.
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medicine: unit of measurement
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