Parent's preferences for unscheduled paediatric healthcare: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unscheduled healthcare is a key component of healthcare delivery and makes up a significant proportion of healthcare access, with children being particularly high users of unscheduled healthcare. Understanding the relative importance of factors that influence this behaviour and decision-making is fundamental to ensuring the system is best designed to meet the needs of users and foster appropriate cost-effective usage of health system resources.

Objective

The aim of the study was to identify the parent's preferences for unscheduled healthcare for a common mild childhood illness.

Design

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was developed to identify the preferences of parents accessing unscheduled healthcare for their children.

Setting and participants

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SUBMITTER: Nicholson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10485340 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature