Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
How have discrete choice experiments changed over time? This is the question Soekhai et al. (2018) try to answer. They conduct a systematic literature review covering 27 years of data. Below I summarize some of their findings graphically. First, you see a trend of an increasing number of DCEs. We also see that whereas DCEs…
At first glance, spending a lot of money at the end of people’s life doesn’t make sense. From an economics perspective, the “return on investment” is less, since one may have been able to spend the same money earlier in life to prolong survival. Further, for any given treatment, these treatments are often less effective…
The answer is likely “It depends.” To see why this is the case, let us consider the case of some proposed health reforms in Switzerland to force physicians into managed care (MC) networks. As described in Rischatsch (2015): In 2012, Switzerland held a referendum…aimed at encouraging the nationwide development of MC networks. Among other changes…the legal…
In discrete choice experiments (DCEs), respondents are asked to choose amoung different options which vary across different attributes. For instance, a DCE on mobile phone preferences could have processor speed, battery life, screen size and cost as attributes. A DCE looking at different treatments could have expected survival, anticipated side effects and cost as attributes.…