The impact of pandemic influenza H1N1 on health-related quality of life: a prospective population-based study.

BACKGROUND: While the H1N1v influenza pandemic in 2009 was clinically mild, with a low case-fatality rate, the overall disease burden measured in quality-adjusted life years (QALY) lost has not been estimated. Such a measure would allow comparison with other diseases and assessment of the cost-effec...

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Main Authors: Albert Jan van Hoek, Anthony Underwood, Mark Jit, Elizabeth Miller, W John Edmunds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3047534?pdf=render