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... metastatic melanoma patients, lower risk of fatigue, and higher 3-year RFS in the adjuvant ...preventing melanoma recurrence in stage III ...with adjuvant melanoma ... See full document

... 15 patient pretest interviews if they reported having a physician’s diagnosis of CRC, with five having a self-reported diagnosis of ...mock choice questions intended to assess whether they understood and ... See full document

... Then, choice tasks were created and were tested with people with type 2 diabetes to determine whether they understood the attribute descriptions and could successfully complete the choice ... See full document

... Next, we investigated the class-membership effects for the three classes. Of all the patients, 42.13% were assigned to Class 1, 47.24% to Class 2, and 10.63% to Class 3. The differences between classes 1 and 2 ... See full document

... a physician was added to the choice set of attributes as that domain was shown to be a relevant discriminating factor be- tween SCIT and SLIT in an earlier study by Peter et ... See full document

... This study was designed to follow the good practice guidelines for conjoint analysis associated with the Inter- national Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research [19]. A two-phase approach was conducted. In the ... See full document

... each patient, it will be more easy for them to evaluate each level of this attribute using the descrip- tion of mild, moderate, and severe instead of describing side effects such as headache or flu-like ... See full document

... Last, preferences shifted in both groups from copay- ments for medication and diagnostic tests, to coinsur- ances for specialist care (see Tables 3, 4 and ... See full document

... a patient profile for each ...attributes: patient age (under or over 65 years), ECOG status (0–1, 2, or 3), comorbid con- ditions (none, few, or significant), mutation status (BRAF positive or BRAF ... See full document

... Results: 131 physicians completed the questionnaire, 88% of these on paper and 12% online. 70% of the physicians were male. The mean duration since licensure was 17 years. The most frequent specialist areas were internal ... See full document

... Myeloma is a disorder of the plasma cells characterized by the proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. 1 It is the 17th most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 2% of all new cases. 2 Although ... See full document

... We estimated interaction terms between patients ’ sociodemo- graphic characteristics (e.g. age, cancer type, tumor stage) and preference for different levels of chemotherapy attributes (Table 4). We found that compared ... See full document

... As qualitative methods have recently been recognized as a useful tool for defining attributes and levels, devel- oping questionnaires and improving the validity of DCE studies [12,22], to assist in the development of ... See full document

... Although the monetary value of non-monetary attri- butes was also suggested in the aforementioned studies, due to currency differences between Korea and the countries in which the studies were conducted, it is diffi- ... See full document

... our choice of country charac- teristics and levels of importance, we ended up with an experimental design that included 81 possible frameworks (3 3 3 ...paired choice sets, which was deemed to be ... See full document

... where patient ART refill visits are expedited and bypass clinic staff, and there are infrequent clinical assessments and group adherence counselling, and (4) out of facility individual models where ART or clinic ... See full document

... on patient preferences for WB-MRI vs CT in patients undergoing lymphoma staging showed pa- tients found WB-MRI less unpleasant and less worrisome than CT ... See full document

... using a DCE. All six attributes (including both economic and non-economic factors) significantly affected the job choices of the students. They preferred a job with higher monthly income, light working strength, ... See full document

... There are a few limitations to this study that need to be pointed out. First, for practicability DCE needs to be per- formed with preferably the least number of parameter and pairs. The level of complexity of our study ... See full document

... the experiment (n = 23) (for the description of the sample please refer to ...the physician, and possibility to combine the screening visits with other health ... See full document