Evaluating the Consistency of Patient Preference Estimates: Systematic Variation in Survival-Adverse Event Trade-Offs in Patients with Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease.

These results suggest that although preferences vary between patients, they may do so in systematic and predictable ways. Further, they do so in ways consistent with societal preferences and decision maker priorities toward end-of-life settings. Further work is required to replicate this result in other patient groups and to explore the consistency of preferences for other treatment attributes.