title: The clinical utility of utility assessment.
abstract: The usefulness of utility assessment as a method for revealing individual patients' desires is limited by two methodological problems. Different utility assessment methods can yield inconsistent results, both within a single clinical context and in different contexts; and the methods may not reflect universal rules that a patient may wish to abide by. To make utility assessment useful to the clinician, future research needs to address these problems in the clinical context.
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D012306:Risk