OBJECTIVE To determine how specific job attributes influenced fourth year medical students' stated preference for hypothetical rural job postings in Ghana. METHODS Based on discussions with medical student focus groups and physicians in practice and in the Ministry of Health, we created a discrete choice experiment (DCE) that assessed how students' stated preference for certain rural postings...

Background. The aims of this study were to assess patients' preferences to wait or start systemic treatment and understand how patients would make tradeoffs between certain severe adverse events (AEs) and additional months of progression-free survival (PFS). Materials and Methods. Adults in France, Germany, and Spain with a diagnosis of DTC and who have had at least one RAI treatment completed ...

Perinatal depression and anxiety (PNDA) are an international healthcare priority, associated with significant short- and long-term problems for women, their children and families. Effective treatment is available but uptake is suboptimal: some women go untreated whilst others choose treatments without strong evidence of efficacy. Better understanding of women's preferences for treatment is need...

This study assessed smokers' responses to different smoking cessation topics and imagery for cigarette package inserts. Adult smokers from Canada (n = 1000) participated in three discrete choice experiments (DCEs): DCE 1 assessed five cessation benefit topics and five imagery types; DCE 2 assessed five messages with tips to improve cessation success and five imagery types; DCE 3 assessed four r...

Health preference research (HPR) is the subfield of health economics dedicated to understanding value and health-related objects using observational or experimental methods. In a discrete choice experiment (DCE), utility in set may differ systematically between persons due interpersonal heterogeneity (e.g., brand-name medication, generic no medication). To allow for heterogeneity, probabilities...

This study reports on the application of a Portfolio Decision Analysis (PDA) to support investment decisions non-profit funder vaccine technology platform development for rapid response emerging infections. A value framework was constructed via document reviews and stakeholder consultations. Probability Success (PoS) data obtained 16 projects through expert assessments portfolio preferences Dis...

BACKGROUND Health care regulatory agencies perform audits or inspections to judge the quality and safety of health care. This judgment is based on the assessment of a large set of health care indicators as accepted by the profession. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the influence of these indicators and whether a smaller number would be sufficient for a quality assessment or audit pr...

We propose the demonstration of Direct Code Execution (DCE), a framework of network simulation running with both existing Linux kernel space protocol stack and POSIX socket based protocol implementations, to achieve a set of requirements for reproducible network experiment: 1) experimentation realism, 2) topology flexibility, 3) easy and low cost replication, 4) experimentation scalability, and...

Introduction: Intracellular water lifetime (τi) is closely related to membrane permeability and intracellular water diffusivity in addition to size and shape of the cells [1, 2]. The importance of this parameter is paramount in understanding MR data, particularly for diffusion and perfusion experiments. Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI of a diffusible tracer has been widely used for diagnosi...