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QUALY
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qualy
English
Noun
en quality-adjusted life year.
en QALY
en DALY
en 1999 Cass R. Sunstein Free Markets and Social Justice Oxford University Press 9780195356175 144 https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2cFPSEn4xMC&pg=PA144&dq=%22QUALY%22&hl=&cd=10&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22QUALY%22&f=false A QUALY is a measure of health based on people's attitudes toward various conditions. It rejects the concept of monetary evaluation of health; instead, it focuses on how people value various health states.