Trading people versus trading time: what is the difference?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Person trade-off (PTO) elicitations yield different values than standard utility measures, such as time trade-off (TTO) elicitations. Some people believe this difference arises because the PTO captures the importance of distributive principles other than maximizing treatment benefits. We conducted a qualitative study to determine whether people mention considerations related to distributive principles other than QALY-maximization more often in PTO elicitations than in TTO elicitations and whether this could account for the empirical differences.

Methods

64 members of the general public were randomized to one of three different face-to-face interviews, thinking aloud as they responded to TTO and PTO elicitations. Participants responded to a TTO followed by a PTO el

SUBMITTER: Damschroder LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1310516 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature