Can the standard gamble be used to determine utilities for uncertain health states? An example using postoperative maintenance therapy in Crohn's disease.

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Published in Med Decis Making on February 23, 2000

Authors

E D Kennedy1, A S Detsky, H A Llewellyn-Thomas, B I O'Connor, M Varkul, A H Steinhart, Z Cohen, R S McLeod

Author Affiliations

1: University of Toronto Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research and Administration, and the Faculty of Medicine; the Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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