Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics?

Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics.

This paper discusses different design techniques for stated preference surveys in health economic applications. In particular, we focus on different design techniques, i.e. how to combine the attribute levels into alternatives and choice sets, for choice experiments. Design is a vital issue in choice experiments since the combination of alternatives in the choice sets will determine the degree ...

Clinical monitoring of peripheral perfusion: there is more to learn

Irrespective of initiating factors, the peripheral circulation shows two general phases during the development and treatment of shock. Most published reports support earlier knowledge that the peripheral circulation is among the first to deteriorate and the last to be restored. With the advent of new and old techniques that allow us to continuously monitor peripheral perfusion, we may further s...

THE COVER TEST is there anything more to learn ?

What more is there to learn about trachoma?

few minutes spent searching Medline reveals some interesting trends: while the total number of scientific publications has exploded over the past 35 years, the number of papers incorporating the keyword " trachoma " has actually decreased (Fig 1A). The number of reviews of trachoma, however, has increased (Fig 1B). Is this a sign that the study of trachoma has matured— that effective treatments...

From preference to happiness: Towards a more complete welfare economics

Welfare economics is incomplete as it analyzes preference without going on to analyze welfare (or happiness) which is the ultimate objective. Preference and welfare may di¤er due to imperfect knowledge, imperfect rationality, and/or a concern for the welfare of others (non-a¤ective altruism). Imperfection in knowledge and rationality has a biological basis and the resulting accumulation instinc...