Patients' preferences for osteoporosis drug treatment: a discrete-choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The patient's perspective is becoming increasingly important in clinical and policy decisions. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the preferences of patients with, or at risk of, osteoporosis for medication attributes, and to establish how patients trade between these attributes.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment survey was designed and patients were asked to choose between two hypothetical unlabelled drug treatments (and an opt-out option) that vary in five attributes: efficacy in reducing the risk of fracture, type of potential common side-effects, mode and frequency of administration and out-of-pocket costs. An efficient experimental design was used to construct the treatment option choice sets and a mixed logit panel data model was used to estimate patie

SUBMITTER: Hiligsmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3979104 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature