Quantifying Benefit-Risk Preferences for Heart Failure Devices: A Stated-Preference Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regulatory and clinical decisions involving health technologies require judgements about relative importance of their expected benefits and risks. We sought to quantify heart-failure patients' acceptance of therapeutic risks in exchange for improved effectiveness with implantable devices.

Methods

Individuals with heart failure recruited from a national web panel or academic medical center completed a web-based discrete-choice experiment survey in which they were randomized to one of 40 blocks of 8 experimentally controlled choice questions comprised of 2 device scenarios and a no-device scenario. Device scenarios offered an additional year of physical functioning equivalent to New York Heart Association class III or a year with improved (ie, class II) symptoms, or

SUBMITTER: Reed SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8763248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature