Quantifying Patient Preferences and Expectations About Diabetic Retinopathy Monitoring.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among adults in the US. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual DR monitoring for all individuals with diabetes, yet monitoring rates remain below 70%.

Objective

To evaluate how patient preferences and expectations about DR monitoring are associated with expected monitoring adherence behaviors.

Design, setting, and participants

In this survey study, a web-enabled survey instrument was developed and implemented with a discrete-choice experiment to characterize patient preferences for outcomes of DR monitoring and graded-pair questions to quantify patients' expectations about the impact of DR monitoring on blindness risk. The survey was conducted through ResearchMatch, a U

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez Sepulveda JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11842207 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature