BACKGROUND The potential barriers and facilitators to change should guide the choice of implementation strategy. Implementation researchers believe that existing methods for the evaluation of potential barriers and facilitators are not satisfactory. Discrete choice experiments (DCE) are relatively new in the health care sector to investigate preferences, and may be of value in the field of impl...

Introduction To understand the importance of preference methods criteria to stakeholders at each decision point in Medical Product Lifecycle (MPLC) and determine suitability commonly applied (Discrete Choice Experiment [DCE], swing weighting [SW], probabilistic threshold technique [PTT], Best-Worst Scaling case 1 [BWS1], 2 [BWS2]) for a given decision-point. Methods Nineteen an existing perform...

BACKGROUND Efforts to reduce Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission through treatment rely on HIV testing programs that are acceptable to broad populations. Yet, testing preferences among diverse at-risk populations in Sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood. We fielded a population-based discrete choice experiment (DCE) to evaluate factors that influence HIV-testing preferences in a ...

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OBJECTIVE To determine how specific job attributes influenced fourth year medical students' stated preference for hypothetical rural job postings in Ghana. METHODS Based on discussions with medical student focus groups and physicians in practice and in the Ministry of Health, we created a discrete choice experiment (DCE) that assessed how students' stated preference for certain rural postings...

Pronunciation variation is extremely widespread and one of the reasons for recognition errors. In this paper we explore how similar-recognized-words can be used to construct or expand more accurate grammars in a specific domain. The domain that serves as framework for this research is the assessment of depression. Assessment of depression is done via a system that verbally administers a discret...