title: U-titer: a utility assessment tool.
abstract: We have developed an automated, modular utility assessment software package called U-titer. The package implements the rating scale, category scaling, standard gamble, chronic and temporary time trade-off methods of assessing patient's preferences, and allows extensive tailoring of each method. In addition to calculating utilities, U-titer records information on the process experienced by the user. It can use information gathered in one module to coordinate another module. Our early experience suggests U-titer assessments are similar to traditional assessments. This software should facilitate both the study of patient's utilities and the study of the assessment methods and their implementation.
authors.affiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sumner
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nease
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Littenberg
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012984:Software