We present results from an extensive discrete choice experiment, which was conducted in three countries (Norway, Scotland, and England) with the aim of disclosing stated prescription behaviour in different decision making contexts and across different cost containment cultures. We show that GPs in all countries respond to information about societal costs, benefits and effectiveness, and that th...

OBJECTIVES To describe the views of health care decision-makers and providers operating in the UK National Health Service (NHS) concerning the concepts of cost-effectiveness, equity and access through a series of attitudinal questions; to evaluate the preferences of health care providers in relation to each of these concepts using a discrete choice experiment (DCE); to assess the impact of prio...

BACKGROUND An increased awareness of patients' and parents' care preferences regarding foot care is desirable from a clinical perspective as such information may be utilised to optimise care delivery. The aim of this study was to examine parents' preferences for, and valuations of foot care and foot-related outcomes in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS A discrete choice experiment ...

BACKGROUND Delivering effective health care within limited budgets requires an understanding of patient priorities. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) provide patients with choices, where each choice differs in terms of certain attributes (such as waiting times, quality of care). Although this technique has significant potential in examining priorities, its use raises practical and conceptual i...

This chapter focuses on stated preferences obtained from discrete choice experiments (DCEs also known as SPDCEs), as opposed to data that reflect real market choices (revealed preferences (RP) as discussed in Chapter 9). DCEs try to simulate the essential elements of real market options that consumers might face in the future. Unlike real market choice data, DCEs rely on constructed markets in ...

Abstract Background Ordinal tasks are increasingly used to explore preferences for health states. This study aimed determine the suitability of two ordinal preference elicitation (discrete choice experiments (DCE) and best-worst scaling (BWS)) use with children young people generate state utility values. The explored children’s understanding, relationship between their age level how many they f...

BACKGROUND Maximizing the benefits of community health worker (CHW) programs requires strategies for improving motivation, performance, and retention. Discrete choice experiments (DCE) are increasingly used to inform policy response to health workforce shortages in rural areas, and may be of value in the context of CHW programs. Participants are presented with pairs of hypothetical jobs that ar...

Background The dearth of health workers in rural settings in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and other developing countries limits healthcare access and outcomes. In evaluating non-wage financial incentive packages as a potential policy option to attract health workers to rural settings, understanding the expected costs and effects of the various programs ex antecan assist policy-makers ...

The package support.CEs provides seven basic functions that support the implementation of choice experiments (CEs) in R: two functions for creating a CE design, which is based on orthogonal main-effect arrays; a function for converting a CE design into questionnaire format; a function for converting a CE design into a design matrix; a function for making the data set suitable for the implementa...

PRS56 ASSeSSing CoPd PAtientS BuRden of diSeASe in A fold-in-fold-out diSCRete ChoiCe exPeRiment Goossens LM1, Stolk EA1, Donkers B1, Boland MR2, Rutten-van Mölken MP1 1Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Objectives: The Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool evaluates and visualizes the health status of patients with chronic obstructive ...