Evaluation of the treatment tradeoff method in rectal cancer patients: is surgery preference related to outcome utilities?
Patients indeed use their valuations of treatment outcomes states, especially those they are less familiar with, in determining their preference for one treatment over another. In clinical practice, the TTM may be used to obtain an indication of the treatment preference of an individual patient and may also be helpful to detect patients' motives to choose one treatment over another.
The results indicate that socio-economic and integration level may explain a large proportion of the ethnic differences in dietary patterns.