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I'm looking for other studies considering this idea of "life years". Generally around where people's time is going, what is wasting it, or taking it away. Does

• nicwilson 5y ago
  The determination of whether to proceed with medical intervention is usually done with a metric called quality adjusted life years (QALY: which is life years adjusted by quality of life), or rather they are never done if QALY is negative. And proceed to make a judgement call based on QALY/cost. As for studies, almost every cancer treatment study will use this metric as will _many_ other medical studies.