The Rosser and Kind map of health states
| Disability | Distress | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |
| None | Mild | Moderate | Severe | |
| From Menzel PT. Strong medicine:the ethical rationing of health care. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990:82–3 (reprinted with kind permission from the publisher). | ||||
| 1. No disability | 1.000 | 0.995 | 0.990 | 0.967 |
| 2. Slight disability | 0.990 | 0.986 | 0.973 | 0.932 |
| 3. Severe social disability or slight impairment at work | 0.980 | 0.972 | 0.956 | 0.912 |
| 4. Choice of work severely limited | 0.964 | 0.956 | 0.942 | 0.870 |
| 5. Unemployable but able to perform a few simple tasks | 0.946 | 0.935 | 0.900 | 0.700 |
| 6. Confined to chair or wheelchair | 0.875 | 0.845 | 0.680 | 0.000 |
| 7. Confined to bed | 0.677 | 0.564 | 0.000 | −1.486 |
| 8. Unconscious | −1.028 | – | – | – |