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Figure 4 Patient-Preferred Survival

Days alive adjusted by time trade-off. For each patient, the x-y plot compares the actual survival days during 6 months to the survival days adjusted for the survival preference described by the patient during each interval (see Methods). Overall, the majority of patients had <10% devalued days. Patients dying before 105 days had the highest proportion of days devalued by low preference for survival (p = 0.0015), with 31% of patients indicating that they would trade >90% of their remaining days to feel better, compared with 6% of patients surviving all 180 days.