Trial reportPloS one2012
Citizen participation in patient prioritization policy decisions: an empirical and experimental study on patients' characteristics.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Discrete choice experiments in health economics: a review of the literature.PharmacoEconomics · 2014Pooled it
- A systematic review of stated preference studies reporting public preferences for healthcare priority setting.The patient · 2014Pooled it
- Measuring Public Preferences for Health Outcomes and Expenditures in a Context of Healthcare Resource Re-Allocation.PharmacoEconomics · 2019Trial
- Polarity in healthcare priority setting: a comparative analysis of attitudes among Finnish physicians, dentists, MPs, and citizens.BMC public health · 2025Article
- How Stable Are Individual Preferences for Health Expenditure in Germany?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- What should be publicly funded in the Colombian health system? A mixed methods study of citizens' perceptions.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Priority setting in the German healthcare system: results from a discrete choice experiment.International journal of health economics and management · 2023Article
- Attitudes towards priority setting in the norwegian health care system: a general population survey.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Rationing of a scarce life-saving resource: Public preferences for prioritizing COVID-19 vaccination.Health economics · 2022Article
- Referral Prioritization in Home Care Occupational Therapy: A Matter of Perspective.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie · 2020Article
- Value judgment of new medical treatments: Societal and patient perspectives to inform priority setting in The Netherlands.PloS one · 2020Article
- Involving Citizen-Patients in the Development of Telehealth Services: Qualitative Study of Experts' and Citizen-Patients' Perspectives.Journal of participatory medicine · 2018Article
- Weighting Health Outcomes by Socioeconomic Position Using Stated Preferences.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2018Article
- The views of the general public on prioritising vaccination programmes against childhood diseases: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2018Article
- Functioning and quality of life in Dutch oldest old with diverse levels of dependency.Patient preference and adherence · 2018Article
- How important is severity for the evaluation of health services: new evidence using the relative social willingness to pay instrument.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2017Article
- Citizens' preferences on healthcare expenditure allocation: evidence from Greece.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2016Article
- What health care services does the public want and who should decide? Ask them!Israel journal of health policy research · 2016Article
- Prioritising patients for bariatric surgery: building public preferences from a discrete choice experiment into public policy.BMJ open · 2015Article
- What Does the Public Want? Structural Consideration of Citizen Preferences in Health Care Coverage Decisions.MDM policy & practiceArticle
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Abstract
Health systems worldwide are grappling with the need to control costs to maintain system viability. With the combination of worsening economic conditions, an aging population and reductions in tax revenues, the pressures to make structural changes are expected to continue growing. Common cost control mechanisms, e.g. curtailment of patient access and treatment prioritization, are likely to be adversely viewed by citizens. It seems therefore wise to include them in the decision making processes that lead up to policy changes. In the context of a multilevel iterative mixed-method design a quantitative survey representative of the German population (N = 2031) was conducted to probe the acceptance of priority setting in medicine and to explore the practicability of direct public involvement. Here we focus on preferences for patients' characteristics (medical aspects, lifestyle and socio-economic status) as possible criteria for prioritizing medical services. A questionnaire with closed response options was fielded to gain insight into attitudes toward broad prioritization criteria of patient groups. Furthermore, a discrete choice experiment was used as a rigorous approach to investigate citizens' preferences toward specific criteria level in context of other criteria. Both the questionnaire and the discrete choice experiment were performed with the same sample. The citizens' own health and social situation are included as explanatory variables. Data were evaluated using corresponding analysis, contingency analysis, logistic regression and a multinomial exploded logit model. The results show that some medical criteria are highly accepted for prioritizing patients whereas socio-economic criteria are rejected.
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