Preferences of patients with diabetes mellitus for primary healthcare institutions: a discrete choice experiment in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To quantify the preference of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) for primary healthcare (PHC) institutions in China to redirect the patient flow and improve health outcomes.

Design

Cross-sectional study. Discrete choice experiment (DCE) surveys asked patients with DM to choose between hypothetical institutions that differed in the medical service capacity, out-of-pocket (OOP) medical costs per month, travel time, the attitude of medical staff and the availability of diabetes drugs.

Setting

Shandong province, China.

Participants

The participants were 887 patients with DM from 36 urban communities and 36 rural villages in Shandong province. One participant did not provide any DCE answers and a further 57 patients failed the internal consistency test.

SUBMITTER: Lv Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410837 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature