Is the Quality Adjusted Life Years formula failsafe ?
Murphy's Law say if it can happen it will appear.
What if a patient is over some cut-off age.
What if forgiving is move from the critical care ward to another ward to convalesce.
Answer:
Your example is one of totally rude use of QALY's. They aren't meant to be used on individuals, a short time ago as a budget tool to give a fuzzy idea of cost-effectiveness for macroeconomic budgetary planning.
Of course, the Glascow Coma Scale be developed as a demographic measure not to be used on individual cases, and its misuse have been standard for ages.
Big Brother is near us, and I don't know how to turn back the clock, but at lowest possible we can remind people there's a difference between the standard and the specific.
What concocted by the hand and the Mind of Man can possibly be held as failsafe? What? Nature does not allow for failsafes, in that are always portals near which it avails Itself to change and grow.