Value judgment of new medical treatments: Societal and patient perspectives to inform priority setting in The Netherlands.

Background In many countries, medical interventions are reimbursed on the basis of recommendations made by advisory boards and committees that apply multiple criteria in their assessment procedures. Given the diversity of these criteria, it is difficult to find common ground to determine what information is required for setting priorities. Objective To investigate whether society and patients share the same interests and views concerning healthcare priorities. Methods We applied a framework of discrete choice models in which respondents were presented with judgmental tasks to elicit their pref... Mehr ...