Outcomes & Quality of Life

Terms for measuring and valuing health outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes, utility values and QALYs.

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Quality of LifeQoL, Life Quality

A broad concept covering a person's overall wellbeing, including physical, psychological, social, and material aspects, of which health is one part.

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Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY)QALY, Quality-Adjusted Life-Year

A quality-adjusted life year combines time lived with preference-based health-state values so that one year at utility 1 represents one QALY, while periods in poorer health contribute proportionately less—or negatively where the applicable value set permits states valued below dead.

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