Quality of life or cost of living?

Consider the following opening line of text taken from a study presented at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

When quality of life is considered, combined estrogen-progestin hormone therapy (HT) is highly cost-effective for treatment of perimenopausal symptoms.

Wait a tick. Exactly how is it you can use the words "quality of life" and "cost-effective" together like this?

I'm puzzled. I'm further puzzled by the article, which apparantly shows that women on the pharmaceuticals in the study gained a whopping 1.7 additinal months of life. Surely I'm reading this thing wrong. Can someone help me out here?

Posted by Evo Terra at October 07, 2002 02:38 PM | TrackBack (0)