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QALYs and carers.

Hareth Al-Janabi1, Terry N Flynn, Joanna Coast

  • 1Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. h.aljanabi@bham.ac.uk

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Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) for unpaid carers requires careful consideration of methods and values. Including carer QALYs in economic evaluations may impact cost-effectiveness decisions and requires further discussion.

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Published on: June 6, 2020

Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Outcome Measurement
  • Societal Impact Assessment

Background:

  • Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) are standard in health economic evaluations.
  • Traditionally, QALYs focus on patients, excluding unpaid carers.
  • Methodological challenges exist in measuring and incorporating carer QALYs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the methodological considerations for measuring QALYs in unpaid carers.
  • To discuss the implications of including carer QALYs in economic evaluations.
  • To suggest future directions for cost-utility analyses involving carers.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current practices in economic evaluations including carer gains.
  • Discussion of theoretical and empirical concerns with standard QALY instruments for carers.
  • Exploration of broader well-being measures for carer assessment.

Main Results:

  • Current practice for measuring carer QALYs is limited and inconsistent.
  • Conventional health-related quality-of-life tools may not be suitable for carers.
  • Incorporating carer QALYs raises distributional and normative questions.

Conclusions:

  • Measuring QALYs for unpaid carers necessitates specific methodological choices and value judgments.
  • Broader well-being measures may be more appropriate for assessing carer impacts.
  • Further normative discussion and flexible cost-per-QALY analyses are needed to account for carer impacts.