Table 1.

Base, favorable (fav.) and unfavorable (unfav.) utility estimates and durations for each health state.

Health state	Utility estimate			Source of utility estimate	Duration	Source of duration
	base	fav.	unfav.
Screening attendance	0.99	1	0.99	17, 30	1 week	Assumption
Biopsy	0.90	0.94	0.87	30	3 weeks	Assumption
Diagnosis	0.80	0.85	0.75	based on43	1 month	Assumption
Radiation therapy (RT)	0.73	0.91	0.71	19	2 months	19
Radical prostatectomy (RP)	0.67	0.9	0.56	19	2 months	19
Active surveillance	0.97	1	0.85	44–46	7 years	47
2 months – 1 year RT	0.78	0.88	0.61	48	10 months	18
2 months – 1 year RP	0.77	0.91	0.70	49	10 months	18
Post-recovery period	0.95	1	0.93	18, 19	9 years*	Assumption
Palliative therapy	0.60	0.24	0.86	50–53	30 months	54
Terminal illness	0.40	0.24	0.40	50, 52, 53	6 months	52, 53

^*The duration of the post-recovery period used for the sensitivity analysis was the residual life-time³⁸