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. 2012 Aug 24;21(3):139–146. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1324738

Appendix 1 Standard gamble interviewing.

The following is appendix to “standard gamble interviewing”:
 “Imagine there is a new treatment, which is able to cure limb ischemia completely. If the therapy succeeds, it lets them recover the next day and live in perfect health. Though, the therapy is attached to a risk: if the treatment fails, you die painlessly over night. Your physician is not able to predict for which patient the therapy will be successful and for which patient it will be not. He will support your decision for or against the therapy equally.
 Would you decide for this new treatment right now if the chances of full health and dead, respectively, are distributed as follows?”