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A Guide to Measuring and Interpreting Attribute Importance.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- What Value Do Dutch Citizens Place on Health Interventions That Provide Greater Health Gains to Lower-Income Groups? A Discrete Choice Experiment.International journal of health policy and management · 2026Article
- Improving malaria chemoprevention coverage in pregnancy: Surveying stakeholder preferences for new product profiles and community-delivery approaches across five African countries.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Physician Antibiotic Prescribing Preferences in Community Acquired Pneumonia and Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: A National Discrete Choice Experiment.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
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Abstract
Stated-preference (SP) methods, such as discrete-choice experiments (DCE) and best-worst scaling (BWS), have increasingly been used to measure preferences for attributes of medical interventions. Preference information is commonly characterized using attribute importance. However, attribute importance measures can vary in value and interpretation depending on the method used to elicit preferences, the specific context of the questions, and the approach used to normalize attribute effects. This variation complicates the interpretation of preference results and the comparability of results across subgroups in a sample. This article highlights the potential consequences of ignoring variations in attribute importance measures, and makes the case for reporting more clearly how these measures are obtained and calculated. Transparency in the calculations can clarify what conclusions are supported by the results, and help make more accurate and meaningful comparisons across subsamples.
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