Managing the delivery of venous leg ulcer services: A willingness to pay study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

There is widespread variation in venous leg ulcer (VLU) wound care contributing to inadequate service provision resulting in poor outcomes to patients. Little has been published on the perspectives of where treatments should be carried out. The aim of the study was to quantify respondents' preferences for the preferred place of treatment for VLU.

Methods

A UK general population sample was interviewed to elicit preferences for clinic or home care treatment using the willingness to pay elicitation method. Participants were presented with two vignettes describing clinic or home care of VLU, and were asked to select the treatment process that they preferred and provide a detailed explanation for selecting that choice. Then they were asked to state their maxim

SUBMITTER: Wickramasekera N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240381 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature