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Eliciting Medical Maximizing-Minimizing Preferences with a Single Question: Development and Validation of the MM1.

Laura D SchererBrian J Zikmund-Fisher
Published in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2020)
The 10-item validated Medical Maximizer-Minimizer Scale (MMS-10) assesses patients' preferences for aggressive v. more passive approaches to health care. However, because many research or clinical situations do not allow for use of a 10-item scale, we developed a single-item maximizer-minimizer elicitation question (the MM1) based on our experiences describing the construct to patient groups, clinical researchers, and the public. In 2 large samples of US adults (N = 368 and N = 814), the correlation between MMS-10 scores and the MM1 was .52 and .60, respectively. Both measures were robust predictors of medical preferences in a set of 12 hypothetical scenarios, and both had strong (and roughly equivalent) associations with 7 self-report measures of health care utilization. Our results demonstrate that the MM1 is a valid, brief elicitation of maximizing-minimizing preferences that can be used in clinical or research contexts where the 10-item scale is infeasible.
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