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

Table 5 Summary of study objectives

Aim	Articles, n[references]
To determine whether a specific surgical procedure was cost-effective in a certain disease or dependent on certain characteristics of the cohort in which it was performed	14[21-26,28,31-33,41,54,55,58]
To determine whether increasing the pool of organs through various strategies was cost-effective	26[8-11,13-18,20,34,36-41,46-52,57]
To compare either two surgical procedures, a surgical procedure vs standard treatment, bridging treatment while on the waitlist, or an alternative treatment in order to determine which had better outcomes in terms of cost-effectiveness	8[27,35,42-45,53,56]