Sayers B M, Fliedner T M
WHO Collaborating Centre for Decision Support Technology, IC-PARC, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England.
Bull World Health Organ. 1997;75(4):383-4.
The DALY Review Group of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) believes that, unless they are constructed purely as an intellectual exercise, indicators should have a function--ultimately to guide decision-making about resource allocation. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) obscure too much and in its present stage of development the DALY approach does not solve the problem of prioritization and of resource allocation and may yet turn out to have been a side-track.
世界卫生组织健康研究咨询委员会（ACHR）的伤残调整生命年（DALY）审查小组认为，除非指标纯粹是作为一种智力活动构建的，否则它们应该具有一种功能——最终用于指导有关资源分配的决策。伤残调整生命年（DALYs）掩盖了太多问题，并且在其目前的发展阶段，DALY方法并未解决优先排序和资源分配问题，甚至可能最终被证明是一条歧途。
