Parents' preferences for enhanced access in the pediatric medical home: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Efforts to transform primary care through the medical home model may have limited effectiveness if they do not incorporate families' preferences for different primary care services.

Objective

To assess parents' relative preferences for different categories of enhanced access services in primary care.

Design, setting, and participants

Internet-based survey that took place with a national online panel from December 8, 2011, to December 22, 2011. Participants included 820 parents of children aged 0 to 17 years. Hispanic and black non-Hispanic parents were each oversampled to 20% of the sample. The survey included a discrete choice experiment with questions that asked parents to choose between hypothetical primary care practices with different levels of enhance

SUBMITTER: Zickafoose JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4545238 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature