Patient preferences for nutritional supplementation to improve fracture healing: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Vitamin D is often prescribed as an adjuvant therapy to aid fracture healing due to its biological role in bone health. However, the optimal frequency, dosage and duration of vitamin D supplementation for non-osteoporotic fracture healing has not been established. The objective of this study was to determine patient preferences for fracture healing relative to hypothetical vitamin D supplementation dosing options.

Design

Discrete choice experiment.

Setting

Level 1 trauma centre in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Participants

199 adult (18-60 years) patients with a fracture.

Primary outcome measures

Parameter estimates of utility for fracture healing relative to dosing regimens were analysed using hierarchical Bayesian modelling.

Results

A redu

SUBMITTER: Nichols E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898332 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature