Understanding patients' preferences for surgical management of urethral stricture disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand how prioritization of treatment attributes and treatment choice varies by patient characteristics, we sought to specifically determine how demographic variables affect patient treatment preference.

Patients and methods

Male patients with urethral stricture disease participated in a choice-based conjoint (CBC) analysis exercise evaluating six treatment attributes associated with internal urethrotomy and urethroplasty. Demographic and past symptom data were collected. Stratified analysis of demographic variables, including age, education, income, was conducted using a mixed effect logistic regression model to evaluate the coefficient size and confidence intervals between the treatments attribute preferences of each strata.

Results

169 patients c

SUBMITTER: Hampson LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6452859 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature