Table 4

Ranking of nine disease stages according to mean person trade-off values in 5 Western European countries and by professional category (standard deviation in parentheses).


All
England
France
Netherlands
Spain
Sweden
Health care professionals
Non-health care professionals
Disease stages
(n = 229)
(n = 50)
(n = 43)
(n = 50)
(n = 47)
(n = 39)
(n = 111)
(n = 118)

Vision disorder (mild/moderate)
0.006 (0.07)
0.001 (0.00)
0.027 (0.16)
0.001 (0.00)
0.001 (0.01)
0.003 (0.01)
0.012 (0.10)
0.001 (0.00)
Chronic low back pain
0.028 (0.12)
0.067 (0.20)
0.025 (0.15)
0.027 (0.08)
0.003 (0.01)
0.013 (0.03)
0.037 (0.17)
0.020 (0.06)
Uncomplicated diabetes
0.042 (0.15)
0.125 (0.28)
0.025 (0.15)
0.023 (0.04)
0.005 (0.02)
0.020 (0.03)
0.065 (0.21)
0.019 (0.06)
Severe asthma
0.054 (0.18)
0.126 (0.27)
0.029 (0.15)
0.067 (0.20)
0.005 (0.02)
0.030 (0.05)
0.069 (0.21)
0.039 (0.13)
Breast cancer (disease-free stage without sequelae)
0.055 (0.20)
0.175 (0.35)
0.028 (0.15)
0.041 (0.15)
0.004 (0.01)
0.007 (0.01)
0.081 (0.25)
0.030 (0.13)
Severe stable angina (NYHA3)
0.109 (0.25)
0.286 (0.37)
0.029 (0.15)
0.132 (0.26)
0.027 (0.05)
0.043 (0.09)
0.133 (0.29)
0.087 (0.19)
Stroke (moderate permanent impairments)
0.171 (0.31)
0.411 (0.43)
0.060 (0.21)
0.199 (0.30)
0.093 (0.22)
0.043 (0.06)
0.216 (0.38)
0.128 (0.22)
Severe depression
0.342 (0.40)
0.534 (0.46)
0.101 (0.26)
0.630 (0.38)
0.112 (0.21)
0.268 (0.28)
0.394 (0.44)
0.292 (0.35)
Quadriplegia
0.648 (0.36)
0.781 (0.31)
0.501 (0.44)
0.827 (0.27)
0.527 (0.33)
0.554 (0.34)
0.636 (0.38)
0.659 (0.34)

New-York Heart Association (NYHA)

Schwarzinger et al. Population Health Metrics 2003 1:9   doi:10.1186/1478-7954-1-9