A Reporting Checklist for Discrete Choice Experiments in Health: The DIRECT Checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reporting standards of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health have not kept pace with the growth of this method, with multiple reviews calling for better reporting to improve transparency, assessment of validity and translation. A key missing piece has been the absence of a reporting checklist that details minimum standards of what should be reported, as exists for many other methods used in health economics.

Methods

This paper reports the development of a reporting checklist for DCEs in health, which involved a scoping review to identify potential items and a Delphi consensus study among 45 DCE experts internationally to select items and guide the wording and structure of the checklist. The Delphi study included a best-worst scaling study for prioritisation

SUBMITTER: Ride J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11405421 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature