Activity ID
10978Expires
August 1, 2024Format Type
Journal-basedCME Credit
1Fee
$30CME Provider: AMA Journal of Ethics
Description of CME Course
Before updating any willingness-to-pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) threshold, a few points must be recognized. Ethical justification for using WTP thresholds and QALYs lies in incorporating the preferences of those whose treatment could be affected by resulting resource allocations. For WTP thresholds, such justification depends on the sufficiency of a match between a group members of an insurance pool from which health care payments and services are drawn and those whose health care is potentially affected. For QALYs, that justification depends on eliciting the right persons’ preferences to inform quality-adjustment ratings; on balance it should be from those who have the conditions being rated. Because the value of simply being alive is not adequately accounted for, how life extension and quality improvement are combined in constructing the QALY is its most significant shortcoming as a measure. Although updating WTP thresholds might be better than not updating them, this manuscript suggests why drawing on a less fundamentally flawed concept than the conventional QALY is more important.
Disclaimers
1. This activity is accredited by the American Medical Association.
2. This activity is free to AMA members.
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Educational Objectives
1. Explain a new or unfamiliar viewpoint on a topic of ethical or professional conduct
2. Evaluate the usefulness of this information for health care practice, teaching, or conduct
3. Decide whether and when to apply the new information to health care practice, teaching, or conduct
Keywords
Ethics, Research, Methods, Statistics
Competencies
Medical Knowledge, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2021.601
