Artigo Revisado por pares

The Clinical Utility of Utility Assessment

1982; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0272989x8200200207

ISSN

1552-681X

Autores

Harold J. Bursztajn, Robert M. Hamm,

Tópico(s)

Healthcare Policy and Management

Resumo

The usefulness of utility assessment as a method for revealing individual patients' desires is limited by two methodological problems. Different utility assessment methods can yield inconsistent results, both within a single clinical context and in different contexts; and the methods may not reflect universal rules that a patient may wish to abide by. To make utility assessment useful to the clinician, future research needs to address these problems in the clinical context.

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