A quality of life tool kit in chronic venous disorders

A quality of life tool kit in chronic venous disorders Robert Launois REES France, 48, rue d’Assas, 75006, Paris, France Abstract Individual preferences are now at the center of the medical decision-making process. Different experimental methods are used to determine preferences. Psychometricians use direct observation of a subject’s reaction in a particular pathological situation: patients are asked to arrange the intensity of the impacts on numerical ordinal scales, but an actual metrical measure is not yet available. Traditionally, economists believe that in a market, only the consumer’s choices enable us to estimate his or her level of satisfaction. In the…

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