Patient preferences for stress urinary incontinence treatments: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To elicit and value patient preferences for the processes and outcomes of surgical management of stress urinary incontinence in women.

Design

A discrete choice experiment survey to elicit preferences for type of anaesthesia, postoperative recovery time, treatment success, adverse events, impact on daily activities and cost. An experimental design generated 40 choice tasks, and each respondent completed 1 block of 10 and 2 validity tests. Analysis was by multinomial logistical regression.

Setting

N=21 UK hospitals.

Participants

N=325 adult women who were a subsample of those randomised to the single-incision mini-slings clinical trial.

Outcomes

Patient preferences; valuation obtained using willingness to pay.

Results

N=227 of 325 (70%) r

SUBMITTER: Boyers D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465896 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature