SynthesisThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2022
Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year: a systematic review with meta-regression.
Synthesis in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Breaking the habit: a systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of non-pharmacological and combined interventions for smoking cessation in Europe.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Pooled it
- Willingness to Pay per QALY: A Systematic Review of Demand-Side Valuations with a Focus on Age and Disease Severity.Applied health economics and health policy · 2026Pooled it
- Factors associated with the author-reported cost-effectiveness threshold in high-income countries: systematic review and multivariable modelling.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Pooled it
- Determinants of willingness to pay for health services: a systematic review of contingent valuation studies.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Physical Therapist Treatment in Addition to Usual Podiatry Management of Plantar Heel Pain: Economic Evaluation of a Randomized Clinical Trial.Physical therapy · 2025Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness of Group Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care Settings: Economic Evaluation From the Healthcare System Perspective Over a 1-Year Time Horizon.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024Trial
- Willingness to pay for a quality adjusted life year across different time horizons: direct elicitation in Quebec.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of toripalimab and bevacizumab versus sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in China.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The value of health and well-being from a societal perspective: A willingness to pay experiment in the Netherlands.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year in Iran: a systematic review.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2026Review
- Methodologies Employed in Economic Evaluation of Suicide Prevention Interventions: A Scoping Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2026Article
- Is it worse than death? Appraisal of health states among older adults and their relatives in Switzerland.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Article
- Patient willingness to pay and preference for cervical cancer treatments among middle- and low-income populations in Xinjiang.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Article
- Benefits beyond health in the willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life-year.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Article
- Monetary value of health-a practical decision-making framework combining equity considerations and WTP.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Article
- Developing a utility value set for the Gambling Quality of Life Scale-Brief (GQoLS-Brief) using a discrete choice experiment.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Article
- Toripalimab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy as first-line therapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness of a primary care-based Healthy Weight Clinic compared with usual care.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Article
- Establishing cost-effectiveness threshold in China: a community survey of willingness to pay for a healthylife year.BMJ global health · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The use of a threshold for cost-utility studies is of major importance to health authorities for making the best allocation decisions for limited resources. Regarding the increasing number of studies worldwide that seek to establish a value for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY), it is necessary to review these studies to provide a global insight into the literature. A systematic review on willingness to pay (WTP) studies focusing on QALY was conducted in eight databases up to June 26, 2020. From a total of 9991 entries, 39 studies were selected, and 511 observations were extracted for the meta-analysis using the ordinary least squares method. The results showed a predicted mean empirical value of $52,619.39 (95% CI 49,952.59; 55,286.19) per QALY in US dollars for 2018. A 1% increase in income led to an increase of 0.6% in the WTP value, while a 1-year increase in respondent age led to a decrease of 3.3% in the WTP value. Sex, education level and employment status had significant effects on WTP. Compared to face-to-face interviews, surveys conducted by the internet or telephone were more likely to have a significantly higher value of WTP per QALY, while out-of-pocket payment tended to lower the value. The prediction made for the province of Quebec, Canada, provided a QALY value of approximately USD $98,450 (CAD $127,985), which is about 2.3 times its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 2018. This study is consistent with the extant literature and will be useful for countries that do not yet have a preference-based survey for the value of a QALY.
Indexed as
Identifiers
34417905What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.