Rivers are under enormous threat worldwide and large amounts of money invested in river restoration. Contrary to the costs, benefits restoration much harder quantify. In this study, restoring different sections Yongding River Beijing, China, estimated through a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Place attachment is measured by sampling residents upstream downstream using as labelled alternatives...

Value sets for the EQ-5D-5L are required to facilitate its use in estimating quality-adjusted life years. An international protocol has been developed to guide the collection of stated preference data for this purpose and has been used to generate EQ-5D-5L valuation data for England. The aim of this paper is report the innovative methods used for modelling those data to obtain a value set. Nine...

BACKGROUND Preference elicitation techniques such as time trade-off (TTO) and standard gamble (SG) receive criticism for their complexity and difficulties of use. Ordinal techniques such as discrete choice experiment (DCE) are arguably easier to understand but generate values that are not anchored onto the full health-dead 1-0 quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) scale required for use in economic...

Background The management of foot problems in JIA is complex and requires a multidisciplinary health professional input. However little is known about patients’ and parents’ preferences for attributes of foot care. Incorporating individuals’ preferences into future foot-care provision may improve satisfaction, treatment adherence, and thus clinical efficacy. The aim of this study was to compare...

Background Psoriasis affects different aspects of health-related quality of life (eg, physical, psychological, and social impairments); these health domains can be of different importance for patients. The importance of domains can be measured with the Patient Benefit Index (PBI). This questionnaire weights the achievement of treatment goals by Likert scales (0, "not important at all" to 4, "ve...

Dear Editor, Specifi c genetic variants have a substantial effect on warfarin dose response but warfarin pharmacogenetic testing (WPGT) is still not routine clinical practice. Apart from clinical validity, economics, social, ethical and legal implications are also important aspects in the implementation of WPGT. Several studies have revealed high interest in pharmacogenetic testing (PGT) but al...

OBJECTIVE To identify key stakeholder preferences and priorities when considering a national healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance programme through the use of a discrete choice experiment (DCE). SETTING Australia does not have a national HAI surveillance programme. An online web-based DCE was developed and made available to participants in Australia. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 1...

BACKGROUND Biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) used in second-line treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are administered parenterally. However, so-called targeted synthetic DMARDs (tsDMARDs) - developed more recently - offer alternative (ie, oral) administration forms in second-line treatment. Since bDMARDs and tsDMARDs can be regarded as equal in terms of efficacy, the...