Assessing physician preferences on future therapeutic options and diagnostic practices in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

There is currently no data on physician preferences regarding future therapies for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); this study explores these preferences and characteristics that are relevant to physician decision-making when choosing a potential therapy for a patient with NASH. The results were compared with those from a similar patient preference survey which was conducted in parallel.

Method

Initial exploratory 30-minute telephone interviews were conducted to inform the design of a 15-minute quantitative online specialist physicians survey, containing direct questions and a preference survey. This was based on a best-worst scaling (BWS) experiment to assess the relative importance of different treatment characteristics (attributes), followed by seve

SUBMITTER: Cook N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7068123 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature