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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2009 Jul 27;30(1):45–57. doi: 10.1177/0272989X09341588
Attributes Levels
Benefit

  • The virus is cleared in 45 out of 100 patients. No one, whether or not the virus is cleared, has cirrhosis after 10 or more years.*

  • The virus is not cleared; No one has cirrhosis after 10 or more years.
Monitoring blood tests for side effects

  • No need to come to the hospital to have blood tests.

  • You need to come to the hospital to have blood tests once a month.
Flu-like illness

  • NO increased risk of flu-like symptoms.

  • 42 out of 100 patients get MILD flu-like symptoms.
Fatigue

  • NO increased risk of fatigue.

  • 54 out of 100 patients have MILD fatigue.
Depression/irritability

  • NO increased risk of depression/irritability.

  • 22 out of 100 patients get A LITTLE depressed or irritable.
*

Modified depending on biopsy results.