Patients' choice preferences for specialist outpatient online consultations: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internet hospitals are multiplying with solid support from the Chinese government. In internet hospitals, specialist outpatient online consultations (SOOC) are the primary services. However, the acceptance and utilization rates of this service are still low. Thus, the study of patients' choice preferences for SOOC is needed.

Objective

To analyze the choice preference of patients' SOOC via a discrete choice experiment, understand the influence of each factor and promote the development of internet hospitals.

Methods

Via a discrete selection experiment, a total of 162 patients from two general hospitals and three specialized hospitals in Beijing were selected for the questionnaire survey. The choice preferences were analyzed by conditional logit

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9850164 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature