Patient preferences for psoriasis treatment: process characteristics considered more important than outcome attributes

Abstract

Evaluation of: Schaarschmidt ML, Schmieder A, Umar N et al. Patient preferences for psoriasis treatments. Process characteristics can outweigh outcome attributes. Arch. Dermatol. 147(11), 1285–1294 (2011).

In a recent paper by Schaarschmidt et al., patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis completed a conjoint analysis survey (discrete choice experiment) to determine which factors had influenced their choice of treatment, and the relative importance of each factor. They also assessed how socioeconomic and demographic factors affected patient choice. Using relative importance scores, treatment location was found to be the more important attribute to patients, followed by probability of benefit and method of delivery.

Keywords::

• choice
• conjoint analysis
• discrete choice experiment
• patient
• preference
• psoriasis
• treatment

Financial & competing interests disclosure

AD Ormerod has previously received educational grants from manufacturers of biologics Pfizer and Abbott. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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