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Emily Lancsar¹, John Wildman, Cam Donaldson

¹Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia. emily.lancsar@monash.edu

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This study introduces a new method to create distributional weights for quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) based on patient age and health status. Findings suggest QALYs are generally not weighted, with small exceptions in specific cases.

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Area of Science:

Health Economics
Decision Analysis
Social Welfare

Background:

Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are a common metric in health technology assessment.
Determining societal values for QALYs, especially considering beneficiary characteristics, remains a challenge.
Existing methods for deriving societal weights are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To apply a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to derive distributional weights for QALYs.
To investigate the influence of beneficiary characteristics (age, severity) on QALY valuation.
To explore the impact of health gain magnitude on QALY weighting.

Main Methods:

Utilized a discrete choice experiment (DCE) framework.
Applied a novel approach based on Hicksian compensating variation.
Incorporated beneficiary characteristics (age, severity) and health gain size as attributes.

Main Results:

The study found that QALYs are generally not weighted.
Weighting is suggested only in a small number of specific cases.
Where weights are applied, they are relatively small.

Conclusions:

The developed DCE method offers a novel way to derive distributional weights for QALYs.
Societal preferences generally do not support weighting QALYs based on age or severity.
Methodological challenges and future research directions were identified.