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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Patient. 2010;3(4):229–248. doi: 10.2165/11539470-000000000-00000

Table VI.

Illustration of SMARTER MAUT analysis

Major
criterion
Effectiveness Adverse Effects Cost
Priority 0.55 0.3 0.16
Symptom relief Halt disease
progression
Serious Common
Priority
rank
4 1 2 5 3
Priority 0.09 0.46 0.26 0.04 0.16
Original
data
Utility
Score
Original
data
Utility
score
Original
data
Utility
score
Original
data
Utility
score
Original
data
Utility
score
Normalized
Total score a
Drug A 95% 92 65% 42 0.1% 95 1% 95 $ 15 90 0.35
Drug B1 85% 83 75% 58 0.5% 75 5% 75 $ 50 67 0.34
Drug C 85% 75 85% 75 1.0% 50 10% 50 $ 100 33 0.31
a

Total score calculated by multiplying each option's rank order centroid times the utility score for each criterion, summing over all criteria, and then normalizing the results. For example, Drug A score (before normalization) = (0.09 × 92) +( 0.46 × 42) + (0.26 × 95) + (0.04 × 95) + (0.16 × 90)