Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care

• Dces: What are they and their Application in Health A User's Guide.- Discrete Choice Experiments in a Nutshell.- Designing Discrete Choice Experiments for Health Care.- Practical Issues in Conducting a Discrete Choice Experiment.- Case Studies in Valuing Health and Health Care.- Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Go Beyond Clinical Outcomes when Evaluating Clinical Practice.- Using Discrete Choice Modelling to Investigate Breast Screening Participation.- Preferences for Health Care Programmes: Results from a general population discrete choice survey.- Examining the Preferences of Health Care Providers: An application to hospital consultants.- Methodological Issues.- The Price Proxy in Discrete Choice Experiments: Issues of Relevance for Future Research.- “Irrational” Stated Preferences: A quantitative and qualitative investigation.- Using Stated Preference and Revealed Preference Data Fusion Modelling in Health Care.- Conclusions.- Concluding Thoughts.

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