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Jacobs JC. Introduction to Effectiveness, Patient Preferences, and Utilities. HERC Cost Effectiveness Analysis Course [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2016 Feb 10.
Cost-effectiveness analysis measures the benefit or health outcome of an intervention in natural units (like a flu episode avoided) or in quality-of-life improvement, defined by the quality-adjusted life years or QALY. This class will provide an introduction to the contents of QALYs and preference measurement and a description of the most common techniques used for measuring QALYs in economic evaluation.