Who deserves health care?

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04/13/2009

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Abstract

In order to do this each patient requiring expensive treatment is assessed according to a quality adjusted life years (QALY) score¹. This is an equation that measures all of the aforementioned criteria and is used to assess the cost versus benefit of a particular treatment. If a patients quality of life would improve greatly and the cost of the treatment is low then the QALY score will be high. However, if the benefit to quality of life is high but the treatment is expensive then the score will be low. This tool is useful to a degree in assisting doctors who are trying to decide how to allocate limited resources but it discriminates against certain groups. For instance those patients who are elderly and need a hip operation for example will have a low QALY score because they have fewer quality of life years left to live than somebody in their fifties needing a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation. In this scenario the person needing the bypass operation is likely to be overweight and, or a smoker and could be considered to be responsible for their illness.

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pencil image Paul B. Freelance Psychology Writer
Level :General public Study : Psychology School/University : Central Lancashire

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