Health Preference Assessment

Do you know what your patients value and what they would be willing to trade off (or pay for) to get what is important to them? For example, if your patient has to choose between a highly effective drug with a bad side effect profile and a less effective drug with minimal side effects, which would they choose?

Rooted in traditional economic theory, stated-preference methods have historically been used in a variety of non-healthcare industries.  Our health-assessment solutions experts have been applying these methods to medical decision-making for nearly 2 decades. What we and our clients have learned is that traditional health economics, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and the patient’s point-of-view are increasingly important factors to consider for you to fully understand the potential and positioning of a treatment in the market.

RTI did an exceptional job, and my entire team greatly appreciated the expertise, dedication, initiative, and flexibility they demonstrated in conducting the study.
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Health Preference Assessment at RTI Health Solutions

Health Preference Assessment Services

See how our multidisciplinary team can help you by applying the most appropriate stated-preference methods—discrete choice experiments/conjoint analysis, best-worst scaling, threshold technique, and contingent valuation methods—to your research question so you can make better product and market decisions.

Preference Studies

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Use stated-preference methods to understand and quantify what patients value in treatment options to help inform you product development, positioning, and regulatory decisions

Benefit-Risk Assessment

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Navigate benefit-risk assessments, balancing product benefits and risks to meet regulatory, reimbursement, and healthcare provider needs

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Assess whether EQ-5D is best for your patient population and explore alternative measures to capture relevant health outcomes in economic evaluations.
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See how patient preference data supported FDA approval of a new ascites treatment, highlighting patient-centered care.
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To support the regulatory approval process, RTI Health Solutions collaborated with Tusker Medical to design and implement a preference study to understand parents’ willingness to choose the Tula procedure.