Measuring Patient Preferences An Overview of Methods with a Focus on Discrete Choice Experiments

作者：Hazlewood Glen S^*

来源：Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 2018, 44(2): 337-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.rdc.2018.01.009

• Patient preference
• Discrete choice experiment
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rheumatic disease
• Review
• Method
• Bias

There is increasing recognition of the importance of patient preferences and methodologies to measure them. In this article, methods to quantify patient preferences are reviewed, with a focus on discrete choice experiments. In a discrete choice experiment, patients are asked to choose between 2 or more treatments. The results can be used to quantify the relative importance of treatment outcomes and/or other considerations relevant to medical decision making. Conducting and interpreting a discrete choice experiment requires multiple steps and an understanding of the potential biases that can arise, which are reviewed in this article with examples in rheumatic diseases.

• 出版日期2018-5