Ontario Public Drug Programs
Glossary – Q
This glossary provides brief explanations of terms used in the Ontario Public Drug Programs web pages. To access a term definition, select the appropriate letter from the alphabet below.
| Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) | A method for comparing health outcomes, which assigns each year of life a weight, from 1 (perfect health) to 0 (judged equivalent to death), dependent on the individual’s health-related quality of life during that year. A total score of years multiplied by weight can then be compared across different interventions. There is disagreement about the best methods for measuring health-related quality of life. |
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