By 2025, the EU aims to develop 100 Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) – communities that promote renewables for energy generation and an environment enables sustainable lifestyles on part of resident. Despite rising interest in topic, prospective residents' preferences PED configurations have yet be documented. This paper addresses this gap by implementing a discrete choice experiment (DCE) Swis...

Introduction To assess convergent validity of stated preference methods in studies where they were used to elicit patient preferences for informing medical product decisions. Methods In four studies, two patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD; n = 140, Discrete Choice Experiment [DCE] and Best-Worst Scaling [BWS] case 2), diabetes (n 495, DCE swing weighting [SW]), myocardial infarction (MI;...

Background Health science popularization short video disseminates health information to the public in an understandable way about information. Objective To investigate preferences of Chinese residents for videos and provide suggestions optimizing production videos. Methods An online survey people was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire, discrete choice experiment (DCE) used explor...

Discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) have become a commonly used instrument in health economics and patient-preference analysis, addressing a wide range of policy questions. An important question when setting up a DCE is the size of the sample needed to answer the research question of interest. Although theory exists as to the calculation of sample size requirements for stated choice data, it doe...

Targeted therapy is the treatment of choice in patients with metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) at most institutions although a combination of cytokine therapy and targeted therapy still is being investigated. Morphological size-based criteria (RECIST) has failed in monitoring the effect of targeted therapy in patients with mRCC, as successful therapy often does not result in a decrease in tum...

OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an important target for electronic decision support. We examined the potential sustainability of an electronic CVD management program using a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Our objective was to estimate physician and patient willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the current and enhanced programs. METHODS Focus groups, expert input and literature searches d...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relative effectiveness of different policies in attracting nurses to rural areas in Kenya, South Africa and Thailand using data from a discrete choice experiment (DCE). METHODS A labelled DCE was designed to model the relative effectiveness of both financial and non-financial strategies designed to attract nurses to rural areas. Data were collected from over 300 grad...

RATIONALE Despite its high level of effectiveness, initial acceptance of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and regular use in patients with obstructive sleep apneoa syndrome (OSAS) are still an issue. Alternatively, oral appliances (OAs) can be recommended. To improve patient engagement in their treatment, physicians are advised to take into account patient preferences and to share the...

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are frequently used to estimate and forecast the behavior of an individual's choice. DCEs based on stated preference; therefore, underlying experimental designs required for this type study. According psychologists, DCE consist a small number sets with limited size in alternatives within set increase response efficiency questionnaire. Even though algorithmic c...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate patients' preferences for various attributes of insulin treatment, including route of insulin delivery. METHODS We used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to quantify patients' preferences. The attributes (and levels) included in the DCE questionnaire were: glucose control, frequency of hypoglycemic events, weight gain, route of administration for the long-acting and the...