What does QUALY stand for?

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).

Economic outcomes were expressed as costs per case of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (grade II or worse) detected, by trial arm, as confirmed at exit, and cost utility ratios (cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained) for the three pair-wise comparisons of trial arms.

As reported in the June 8 Time magazine, "NICE uses a metric called quality-adjusted life year (QALY), which grades a person's health-related quality of life from 0 to 1.

He is best known for developing the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) as a generic outcome measure that would be sensitive to opportunity costs of health-care intervention, and synthesize the principled and the practical.

They arrived at this decision by using "QUALYs," or Quality-Adjusted Life Years.

Under base-case parameter values, the estimated cost per quality-adjusted life year gained by vaccination in the context of current cervical cancer screening practices in the United States ranged from $3,906 to $14,723 (2005 US dollars), depending on factors such as whether herd immunity effects were assumed; the types of HPV targeted by the vaccine; and whether the benefits of preventing anal, vaginal, vulvar, and oropharyngeal cancers were included.

Different studies suggest that the cost per quality-adjusted life year for switching for 2-3 years is approximately half that of 5 years' aromatase inhibitor treatment.

But if someone has a medical condition that impacts quality of life, one year of life might be considered equal to less than one quality-adjusted life year.