Quality-adjusted life years and surgical waiting list: Systematic review of the literature

Table 1 Surgical specialties in which quality-adjusted life years have been used in surgical waiting lists and the procedures evaluated

Surgical specialties	Articles, n	Procedure evaluated and references
General surgery	15	Bariatric surgery (n = 1)[25]
		Liver transplant (n = 14)[10,13,14,16,17,31-39]
Urology	15	Kidney transplant (n = 15)[11,18,40-52]
Heart surgery	5	Heart transplant (n = 4)[7-9,53]
		Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (n = 1)[28]
Thoracic surgery	4	Lung transplant (n = 4)[15,54-56]
Traumatology	4	Total knee arthroplasty (n = 3)[20-22]
		Mosaicplasty (n = 1)[27]
Pediatric surgery	2	Heart transplant (n = 1)[57]
		Intestinal transplant (n = 1)[58]
Ophthalmology	2	Cataract surgery (n = 2)[23,24]
Otorhinolaryngology	1	Septoplasty (n = 1)[26]