Standard Gamble Metric
An outcomes management tool that quantifies a person’s preferences for a specific health state, by determining the chance of death a patient would be willing to take to be freed from symptoms; the patient imagines a treatment that will completely cure his/her symptoms, but involves a risk of immediate death; the standard gamble metric is defined as one minus the risk of death at the point of indifferenceSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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