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Bringing the Patient Voice into Decision Making in Health
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Scientific Study Title:
Bringing the Patient Voice into Decision Making in Health
Start Date:
  • April 1, 2021
End Date:
  • March 31, 2023
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Why do this research?

Reason For Research

Limited public resources together with an increasing demand for health care means that health economists must make decisions about how best to use scarce health care budgets. Those decisions need information about costs and benefits of health care. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) is one of the techniques that can provide information on the value of health and health care. DCEs are a research method that measures the strength of a person’s preference of their answers to a question. Also, DCEs are a potential method to recognize the importance of patient centred care and to value patient experiences in health care delivery. DCEs can be applied more widely to consider population and health care professionals’ preferences in areas of health policy.

Professors Ryan and Marshall have a shared interest in the development of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics and the application of these methods to bring the patient voice into health policy decisions.

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Execution of Research

Professors Ryan and Marshal shared interest in DECs has led to their delivery of a bi-annual DCE course in Canada. They are currently collaborating on refreshing the course on DCE methodology, a book on DCE in health economics and developing research interests in the economics of gene sequencing in the diagnosis of rare diseases.

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