At this point the patient specific phase of the process is completed.

The rest of the methodology is applied when faced with a specific context of medical decision making with physician determined outcomes for the available treatment strategies.

Results of all steps up to this point are reusable because they do not depend upon the health states of any specific decision context.

This is in stark contrast to the current methods of utility assessment which are constructed from the specific decision context.

• decision specific phase of elicitation
  • accomplished with the consultation of health care provider
  • disentangled from attribute list determination