What do hospital consultants value about their jobs? A discrete choice experiment

What do hospital consultants value about their jobs? A discrete choice experiment.

OBJECTIVE To examine the strength of hospital consultants' preferences for various aspects of their work. DESIGN Questionnaire survey including a discrete choice experiment. SETTING NHS Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 2923 hospital consultants in Scotland. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Monetary valuations or prices for each job characteristic, based on consultants' willingness to pay and willingness to ...

What do GPs value about their job ?

In the mid 1990's, there was a shift in policy emphasis in the UK from policies that tried to influence the behaviour of GPs through financial incentives (e.g. the 1990 GP Contract), to policies that tried to improve the professional working lives of GPs to improve recruitment, retention and morale (e.g. changes to out of hours arrangements). This highlights the role non-pecuniary job character...

Modeling the hospital safety partnership preferences of patients and their families: a discrete choice conjoint experiment

BACKGROUND Patients and their families play an important role in efforts to improve health service safety. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to understand the safety partnership preferences of patients and their families. METHOD We used a discrete choice conjoint experiment to model the safety partnership preferences of 1,084 patients or those such as parents acting on their behalf. ...

What should we do about hospital readmissions?

Teaching Medical Students, what do Consultants think?

BACKGROUND The approach to and delivery of medical student education has undergone significant change within the last decade. There has been a shift away from didactic lectures to small group tutorials, facilitated by clinicians. Anecdotally there is an impression that enthusiasm for teaching is waning. The aim of this qualitative study is to assess the current attitudes of consultants, across ...