QALYs

Question 1

What is the HQRL score?

Answer 1

• Health-Related Quality-of-Life score
  The HRQL score incorporates things such as a person’s mobility, pain, anxiety etc.

Question 2

What is a cost-effective drug according to NICE?

Answer 2

Although not always the case, NICE usually considers treatments which cost less than £20,000 per QALY gained as cost-effective. However, some treatments under £30,000 per QALY gained can be considered cost-effective depending on how they affect the quality of life of patients.

Question 3

How are QALYs used to allocate funding?

Answer 3

• A drug/treatment that yields more QALYs for the same price is more utilitarian.