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Table 4.

Characteristics of non-empirical “theoretical” papers.

Author(s)	Title	Journal	Type of article
Egan⁵	QALYs or quackery? The quagmire of quantifying the cost of breathing	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	Editorial
Hughes⁶	Palliative care and the QALY problem	Health Care Analysis: Journal of Health Philosophy and Policy	Journal article
Normand¹²	Measuring outcomes in palliative care: limitations of QALYs and the road to PalYs	Journal of Pain & Symptom Management	Special article
Haycox⁴¹	Optimizing decision making and resource allocation in palliative care	Journal of Pain & Symptom Management	Special article
Cowley⁴²	Justifying terminal care by “retrospective quality-adjusted life-years”	Journal of Medical Ethics	Ethics
Chochinov²⁹	Death, time and the theory of relativity	Journal of Pain & Symptom Management	Special article
Chochinov⁷⁰	Relatively speaking. To the editor.	Journal of Pain & Symptom Management
Yang and Mahon³⁰	Considerations of quality-adjusted life-year in palliative care for the terminally ill	Journal of Palliative Medicine	Editorial letter
Normand¹²	Setting priorities in and for end-of-life care: challenges in the application of economic evaluation	Health Economics, Policy and Law	Journal article
Round⁷	Is a QALY still a QALY at the end of life?	Journal of Health Economics	Journal article
Round⁴³	Death, time, and the theory of relativity: a brief reply?	Journal of Pain & Symptom Management	Editor letter
Yang and Mahon⁸	Palliative care for the terminally ill in America: the consideration of QALYs, costs, and ethical issues	Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy	Scientific contribution
Coast¹⁴	Strategies for the economic evaluation of end-of-life care: making a case for the capability approach	Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research	Perspective

QALY: quality-adjusted life year; PalY: Palliative Care Yardstick.