Justifying terminal care by ‘retrospective quality-adjusted life-years’

A lot of medical procedures can be justified in terms of the number of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) they can be expected to generate; that is, the number of extra years that the procedure will provide, with the quality of life during those extra years factored in. QALYs are a crude tool, but...

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Main Author: Cowley, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2010
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 36, Issue: 5, Pages: 290-292
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