Gambling with gastroesophageal reflux disease: should we worry about the QALY? (editorial)

Title: Gambling with gastroesophageal reflux disease: should we worry about the QALY? (editorial)
Creator: Moayyedi, Paul; Talley, Nicholas J.
Relation: American Journal of Gastroenterology Vol. 100, Issue 3, p. 534-536
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41779.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: Gastroenterologists mainly deal with chronic organic and functional illnesses that are not life threatening but can be expensive to treat. How this compares with the management of other diseases that cause significant mortality is an important question to answer if health-care resources are to be allocated appropriately. Comparing health care in terms of cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained is one approach to this problem although there are concerns about whose values should be elicited and how QALYs are measured.
Subject: gastroesophageal reflux disease; QALY; quality adjusted life year; health care
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929028
Identifier: uon:10517
Identifier: ISSN:0002-9270
Language: eng
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