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Improving Study Design and Reporting for Stated Choice Experiments [Methods Study], Australia, 2013-2020 (ICPSR 39714)
Released/updated on: 2026-03-12
Geographic coverage: Australia
Time period: 2013-01-01--2020-12-31
Researchers can use experiments to learn about what patients prefer. Discrete choice experiments, or DCEs, describe treatments with different features, such as out-of-pocket costs or wait times. Patients fill out surveys about which treatments they prefer. From their choices, researchers learn what is most important to patients and how they think about the different features.
DCEs can be hard to design and analyze. When surveys are complex, patients may ignore information or take shortcuts, which leads to inaccurate results.
To make DCE results more accurate, researchers can
- Change the design of the DCE
- Apply statistical methods
But current knowledge of how to do this is limited. In this project, the research team looked at improving methods to design and analyze DCEs.