background: health workforce shortages in rural and remote areas are a global challenge that almost every health system has to deal with. this study aimed to discover neurosurgeons’ job preferences and propose policy interventions that could possibly increase their retention in rural, remote, or underserved areas. methods: a discrete choice experiment (dce) was conducted in november 2014 with a...

Constructing stated-preference (sp) experiments from a choice that the respondent made in a revealed-preference setting can enhance the realism of the sp task and the efficacy of preference revelation. However, the practice creates dependence between the sp attributes and unobserved factors, contrary to the independence assumption that is maintained for standard estimation procedures. We descri...

Introduction To assess convergent validity of stated preference methods in studies where they were used to elicit patient preferences for informing medical product decisions. Methods In four studies, two patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD; n = 140, Discrete Choice Experiment [DCE] and Best-Worst Scaling [BWS] case 2), diabetes (n 495, DCE swing weighting [SW]), myocardial infarction (MI;...