What does LY stand for?

Life Years

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Diarrhea is still the second leading cause of death among children across the world, accounting for 18 percent of childhood deaths and 13 percent of all disability-adjusted life years.

Little progress in implementation of lifesaving diarrhea treatments ...

Using estimates of disease prevalence, treatment failure, quality-adjusted life years, and costs, she reported that EPT would have resulted in 984 fewer cases of chlamydia (rather than the actual 196,819 cases) and 1,280 fewer cases of gonorrhea (rather than the actual 56,585 cases).

Expedited partner treatment merits expansion

In QALYs, the number of life years gained is weighted by an index of utility, which acts as an exchange rate between the quantity and quality of life.

The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)

The Medicare beneficiaries receiving the Part D prescription coverage lived an average eight years and two months of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) after their initial heart attack.

Study: Compliance, QAL reduced, costs increased by heart drug ...

In this model, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) calculations were based on costs measured as US dollars for 2005 and effectiveness measured as quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).

Human papillomavirus vaccination strategies

Oncological therapy approaches are measured by hard outcome parameters like survival time, quality of life or at best by the relation of survival time and quality of life (health-adjusted life years or quality-adjusted life years).

8. Evidence-based medicine (EbM) versus health services research: how ...

Today cost-effectiveness studies often look at how much it would cost to improve the health of a person to the point where quality-adjusted life years are close to actual life years.

High hopes, high costs: when research produces expensive therapies, ...

8 million quality-adjusted life years annually, compared to a loss of 270,000 quality-adjusted life years for overweight men.

Obesity takes tougher health toll on women