time trade-off metric

time trade-off metric

Clinical decision-making A tool used in outcomes management that quantifies a person's preferences for a specific health state, '…by assessing how much time a Pt would be willing to give up to be freed from a reduced health state; the TTOU is the number of Sx-free yrs divided by the number of yrs with Sx, at the point of indifference'. See Outcomes, Utility. Cf Standard gamble metric.

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