Preference for Alternate-Day Versus Conventional In-Center Dialysis: A Health Utility Elicitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mortality rates for patients on hemodialysis (HD) continue to be high, in particular, following the long interdialytic period, yet thrice-weekly conventional HD (CHD) is still an almost universal regimen. Alternate-day dialysis (ADD) may have advantages over the current schedule because it would eliminate the long interdialytic break. A preliminary, as yet unpublished, patient simulation and cost-utility analysis compared CHD versus ADD and demonstrated that the economic attractiveness of ADD was sensitive, in particular, to patients' preference for ADD versus CHD. To date, this preference has not been elicited.

Objective

To elicit utilities for both CHD and ADD using 3 standard elicitation methods among a prevalent cohort of patients on CHD.

Design

This st

SUBMITTER: Solimano RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218335 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature