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What attributes should be included in a discrete choice experiment related to health technologies? A systematic literature review.
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- Eliciting parents' decision-making to antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections: A discrete choice experiment.Journal of global health · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic and Critical Review of Discrete Choice Experiments in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.The patient · 2022Pooled it
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- The employment preferences of young people in Canada: a discrete choice experiment.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Patients' Preferences for the Treatment of a Single Missing Tooth in China: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- Women's preferences for caesarean or vaginal birth with a perspective of future fertility: A discrete choice experiment.PloS one · 2024Article
- Preferences for Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Adults with Resected Stage III Melanoma-A Discrete Choice Experiment.The patient · 2023Article
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Abstract
Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a way to assess priority-setting in health care provision. This approach allows for the evaluation of individuals' preferences as a means of adding criteria to traditional quality-adjusted life year analysis. The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify attributes for designing a DCE in order to then develop and validate a framework that supports decision-making on health technologies. Our systematic literature review replicated the methods and search terms used by de Bekker-Grob et al. 2012 and Clark et al. 2014. The Medline database was searched for articles dated between 2008 and 2015. The search was limited to studies in English that reflected general preferences and were choice-based, published as full-text articles and related to health technologies. This study included 72 papers, 52% of which focused on DCEs on drug treatments. The average number of attributes used in all included DCE studies was 5.74 (SD 1.98). The most frequently used attributes in these DCEs were improvements in health (78%), side effects (57%) and cost of treatment (53%). Other, less frequently used attributes included waiting time for treatment or duration of treatment (25%), severity of disease (7%) and value for money (4%). The attributes identified might inform future DCE surveys designed to study societal preferences regarding health technologies in order to better inform decisions in health technology assessment.
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