The QALY is the best measure anyone has yet devised to enable us to do this.

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U.S. agencies will use the new QALY findings to set its research priorities.

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Their findings criticised the QALY system for grading different states of health.

BBC: Researchers claim NHS drug decisions 'are flawed'

QALY, says Sir Michael Rawlins, its chairman.

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U.S. researchers are being encouraged to work closely with government officials at the rationing board in England (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence or NICE), which has many years of experience with QALY measurements in determining whether or not the government will pay for certain treatments.

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