Videos: Measuring Quality Adjusted Life Years
2022
This multimedia segment, Measuring Quality Adjusted Life Years, includes five videos. Students learn what Quality Adjusted Life Years are and how they can be used as outcome measures for population health. In addition to the videos, materials include an instructor's note, companion slides, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and sample exercises.
After an introduction to the concept, students review the theoretical assumptions-mutual utility independence, constant proportional trade-off, and risk neutrality for life years, they consider the “perspective” from which QALYS are measured and the difference between patient and community values, they follow an example of a commonly used instrument to measure community perspective utility for QALYs, the EQ-5D, and finally they critique QALYs from an ethical perspective, considering whether all QALYs are “equal".
Access the videos.
- Video 1.1 What are QALYs? (~10 min)
- Video 1.2 QALY assumptions (~9 min)
- Video 1.3 Whose preferences for QALYs (~3 min)
- Video 1.4 “Indirect” utility measures (~12 min)
- Video 1.5 Equity concerns (~6 min)
This teaching pack was developed by Sue J. Goldie and Eve Wittenberg at the Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The multimedia components were developed as part of a series of pilots in the CHDS Media Hub, led by Jake Waxman, where media-based pedagogy experiments contribute to new ways of thinking about short form content.
Source:
Videos. Measuring Quality Adjusted Life Years (Videos 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5). Teaching Pack: Population Health Outcomes. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2022. https://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/2861