Do patients' preferences prevail in hospital selection?: a comparison between discrete choice experiments and revealed hospital choice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In patient choice, patients are expected to select the provider that best fits their preferences. In this study, we assess to what extent the hospital choice of patients in practice corresponds with their preferred choice.

Methods

Dutch patients with breast cancer (n = 631) and cataract (n = 1109) were recruited. We employed a discrete choice experiment (DCE) per condition to measure stated preferences and predict the distribution of patients across four hospitals. Each DCE included five attributes: patient experiences, a clinical outcome indicator, waiting time, travel distance and whether the hospital had been recommended (e.g., by the General Practitioner (GP)). Revealed choices were derived from claims data.

Results

Hospital quality was valued as most i

SUBMITTER: Salampessy BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9461248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature