Mortality Risks, Costs, and Decision Making in Transfusion Medicine
Open Access
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 114 (6) , 934-937
- https://doi.org/10.1309/vl6u-xx1w-lxmk-ahhw
Abstract
Traditional quality-adjusted life year (QALY) cost analysis is complex and assigns arbitrary dollar values to catastrophic outcomes such as death. AnKeywords
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