PII handling and adverse event monitoring in patient surveys Patient surveys that collect health information have specific obligations around personally identifiable information and the possibility...
Ethics approval for health preference DCE studies Patient preference studies invariably require ethics approval. Getting this right from the start saves weeks of delay and...
Mobile display of choice tasks in patient surveys More than half of patient preference study respondents complete surveys on mobile devices. Choice tasks designed for...
Informed consent in patient preference DCE studies Patient preference studies involving identifiable health data require informed consent that is specific to the research purpose and...
Recruiting patients for health preference DCE studies Patient recruitment is typically the most challenging and expensive element of a health preference study. Getting the strategy...
Recruiting healthcare professionals for DCE studies HCP studies require professional verification, credentialing checks, and different incentive structures than patient studies. Here is how to do...
Confirmation of diagnosis in patient preference studies For regulatory-grade patient preference studies, confirmation of diagnosis is not optional. Self-report alone is insufficient - but full...
Using DCE evidence in HTA submissions Patient preference evidence from DCE studies is increasingly expected in HTA submissions - but how you prepare and present...
Health preference study checklist - from brief to submission A health preference study has dozens of decision points required the final evidence package. This checklist...
WTP estimation for health outcomes in patient preference studies WTP estimates for health outcomes - reduced side effects, improved efficacy, better quality of life -...
Latent class models for health preference heterogeneity When patient preferences are not just heterogeneous but genuinely segmented - distinct groups with qualitatively different priorities -...
Why use a DCE for health preference research? Health preference research requires a method that produces defensible trade-off estimates. DCEs are that method. Why DCEs...
Patient preference studies - a practical introduction Patient preference studies measure treatment trade-offs quantitatively. Regulators, HTA bodies, and payers increasingly require them. What patient preference...
Labelled vs unlabelled designs in health DCEs Labelled and unlabelled DCEs measure different things. The choice between them has direct consequences for what the estimates...
Dominant alternative design in health preference DCEs A dominant alternative is one that is strictly better on every attribute. Including one by accident destroys the...
Adding consistency checks to a patient preference DCE Consistency checks detect respondents who are not reading the choice sets. They are a standard data quality...
Inattentive respondents in health preference DCE studies Inattentive patient respondents bias WTP estimates in ways that are invisible to standard model fit statistics - and...
Adverse event monitoring in health preference surveys In studies conducted in the context of a drug development programme, adverse events disclosed by patients during the...
