“…QALYs have been applied to different diseases or intervention programs, for instance, treatment of coronary heart disease and screening for breast cancer (Chan, Nallamothu, Gurm, Hayward, & Vijan, 2007;Wong, Kuntz, Cowling, Lam, & Leung, 2007). Information on the preference values of different CHB states can be combined with life years gain in the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of different anti-viral treatment strategies for CHB (Kanwal et al, 2005;Sullivan et al, 2007;Veenstra et al, 2008;Yuan et al, 2008).…”