QALYn.

Brit.

/ˈkwɒli/, U.S.

/ˈkwɑli/

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English Quality-Adjusted Life Year.

Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of Quality-Adjusted Life Year.

A quality-adjusted life year; a unit used, esp. in cost-benefit analysis, in the prediction of both quality and duration of life after medical or surgical treatment.

ΚΠ

1976 R. Zeckhauser & D. S. Shepard in Law & Contemp. Probl. 40 11 We shall employ a hypothetical utility function in our analyses. The unit of output will be quality-adjusted life years, to be referred to by the acronym QALY.

1989 V. R. Godwin in M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. ix. 278 Recent findings indicate that the cost of a QALY of hemodialysis in a hospital is fourteen times that of a coronary artery by-pass graft.

2005 Health & Med. Week (Nexis) 14 Mar. 1219 A threshold of cost-effectiveness of approximately $45,000/QALY gained was used.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	qaly
释义	QALYn. Brit. /ˈkwɒli/, U.S. /ˈkwɑli/ Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English Quality-Adjusted Life Year. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of Quality-Adjusted Life Year. A quality-adjusted life year; a unit used, esp. in cost-benefit analysis, in the prediction of both quality and duration of life after medical or surgical treatment. ΚΠ 1976 R. Zeckhauser & D. S. Shepard in Law & Contemp. Probl. 40 11 We shall employ a hypothetical utility function in our analyses. The unit of output will be quality-adjusted life years, to be referred to by the acronym QALY. 1989 V. R. Godwin in M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. ix. 278 Recent findings indicate that the cost of a QALY of hemodialysis in a hospital is fourteen times that of a coronary artery by-pass graft. 2005 Health & Med. Week (Nexis) 14 Mar. 1219 A threshold of cost-effectiveness of approximately $45,000/QALY gained was used. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1976
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