Patient preferences and willingness to pay for transitional care in breast cancer: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Most chemotherapy reactions occur outside of the hospital; therefore, providing transitional care (TC) to patients is essential. However, patients' preferences for TC remain poorly understood. This study aims to investigate the preferences and willingness to pay for TC among breast cancer patients.

Methods

Data were collected using a discrete choice experiment from a large general hospital in North China. The study used six attributes to describe the preferences of patients for TC. Conditional logit and mixed logit models were applied to assess patient preferences, estimate willingness to pay, and simulate uptake probabilities across different scenarios.

Results

A total of 261 respondents completed the survey. The study showed that patients strongly preferred

SUBMITTER: Zhu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11821795 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature