30 April 2020 - Quality-adjusted life-years and disability-adjusted life-years are commonly used in cost effectiveness analysis to measure health benefits. Gent

Feng et al. sought to quantify and explain differences between QALY  and DALY based cost effectiveness ratios, and explore whether using one versus the other would materially affect conclusions about an intervention's cost effectiveness.

They identified CEAs using both QALYs and DALYs from the Tufts Medical Center CEA Registry and Global Health CEA Registry, with a supplemental search to ensure comprehensive literature coverage.

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