Using stated-preferences methods to develop a summary metric to determine successful treatment of children with a surgical condition: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Wide variation in the management of key paediatric surgical conditions in the UK has likely resulted in outcomes for some children being worse than they could be. Consequently, it is important to reduce unwarranted variation. However, major barriers to this are the inability to detect differences between observed and expected hospital outcomes based on the casemix of the children they have treated, and the inability to detect variation in significant outcomes between hospitals. A stated-preference study has been designed to estimate the value key stakeholders place on different elements of the outcomes for a child with a surgical condition. This study proposes to develop a summary metric to determine what represents successful treatment of children with surgical condit

SUBMITTER: Rivero-Arias O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9185585 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature