Patient Preferences for Features of Health Care Delivery Systems: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the relative importance of organizational-, procedural-, and interpersonal-level features of health care delivery systems from the patient perspective.

Data sources/study setting

We designed four discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to measure patient preferences for 21 health system attributes. Participants were recruited through the online patient portal of a large health system. We analyzed the DCE data using random effects logit models.

Data collection/extraction methods

DCEs were performed in which respondents were provided with descriptions of alternative scenarios and asked to indicate which scenario they prefer. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of the three possible health scenarios (current health, new lung cancer diagnosis, or di

SUBMITTER: Muhlbacher AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799904 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature