Disability Adjusted Life Years and minimal disease: application of a preference-based relevance criterion to rank enteric pathogens

Table 2 Mean VAS weights and mean and median TTO weights, per health state

Health state and length of illness		VAS	TTO
	n	mean	median	mean	sd	%0^a
Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis, mild, 1 day	51	0.036	0	0.002	0.01	88
Gastroenteritis, mild, 5 days	53	0.102	0	0.010	0.04	60
Gastroenteritis, moderate, 10 days	107	0.130	0.005	0.015	0.04	26
Gastroenteritis, severe, 7 days	53	0.231	0.008	0.025	0.05	25
Gastroenteritis, severe, 14 days	51	0.295	0.011	0.041	0.07	17
Gastroenteritis, chronic, 6 months	53	0.368	0.058	0.099	0.11	8
Guillain-Barré syndrome ^b
Guillain-Barré syndrome, F1, whole year	51	0.185	0.008	0.044	0.09	40
Guillain-Barré syndrome, F2, whole year	107	0.420	0.077	0.137	0.18	7
Guillain-Barré syndrome, F3, whole year	53	0.545	0.153	0.215	0.23	2
Guillain-Barré syndrome, F4, whole year	51	0.700	0.252	0.367	0.32	2
Guillain-Barré syndrome, F5, whole year	53	0.722	0.403	0.460	0.31	0
Reactive arthritis
Reactive arthritis, mild, 1 week	51	0.107	0	0.004	0.01	68
Reactive arthritis, mild, 6 weeks	53	0.197	0.011	0.023	0.03	25
Reactive arthritis, moderate, 6 months	53	0.447	0.058	0.115	0.13	8
Reactive arthritis, severe, 6 months	51	0.503	0.153	0.186	0.16	4
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
HUS, moderate, 1 month	53	0.279	0.022	0.056	0.08	13
HUS, severe, 1 month	51	0.481	0.038	0.110	0.19	0
Renal failure, whole year	51	0.628	0.252	0.328	0.25	0
Inflammatory bowel disease
Crohn disease, 6 months	51	0.347	0.067	0.105	0.12	4
Colitis ulcerosa, 6 months	53	0.492	0.115	0.154	0.15	7

^a percentage of participants that were not willing to trade-off any time in order to be restored from the health state.
^b for a detailed description of the five health states of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, see Havelaar et al. [8]

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