ArticleThe patient2024
Pretesting Discrete-Choice Experiments: A Guide for Researchers.
Article in The patient, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Public Preferences for Emerging Cancer Screening Modalities: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments.The patient · 2026Pooled it
- Preferences for Telephone Cancer Information and Support in People with Cancer and Carers: Attribute and Level Selection for a Discrete Choice Experiment.The patient · 2025Pooled it
- Designing National Programmes for Expanded Carrier Screening: Results from a Discrete-Choice Experiment in Singapore.The patient · 2026Article
- Developing a prospective ethical governance framework for a discrete choice experiment involving children aged 6-12 years: the PREF-ANX Kids study.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Older Men's Preferences for HIV Testing in Primary Care Setting: Evidence from a Best-Worst Scaling Study in China.The patient · 2026Article
- Preferences for Video Consultations in Family Health Stations: A Discrete Choice Experiment Among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women.The patient · 2026Article
- Severity or Incidence: Labeling Side-Effect Attributes in Discrete Choice Experiments.The patient · 2026Article
- Incorporating the Patient Voice into Attribute and Level Selection for a Preference Study: A Qualitative Study in Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.The patient · 2026Article
- Individual preferences for the design of a health coaching-based lifestyle promotion program among middle-aged adults in Hong Kong: a discrete choice experiment.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2026Article
- Article
- Public Preferences and Willingness to Pay for a Multidisciplinary Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction Service.The patient · 2026Article
- Probabilistic Attribute Presentation in Discrete Choice Experiments: A Scoping Review of Current Practice.The patient · 2026Review
- Exploring Preferences and Priorities in Advanced Parkinson's Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Neurology and therapy · 2026Article
- Patient Preferences for Long-Term Prophylactic Treatment in Hereditary Angioedema: A Discrete-Choice Experiment.The patient · 2026Article
- Preferences for advance care planning services among patients with recurrent stroke: a discrete choice experiment.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Article
- Patient and Caregiver Preferences for Once-Weekly Injection Devices for the Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2026Article
- Stroke survivors' preferences for recovery-promoting drugs: development and piloting of a discrete choice experiment.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- Patient Preferences for Treatment in Relapsed/Refractory Acute Leukemia: A Multinational Discrete Choice Experiment.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- A study protocol for co-designing risk communication strategies for hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among priority populations in Johannesburg district, Gauteng, South Africa.Discover public health · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) are a frequently used method to explore the preferences of patients and other decision-makers in health. Pretesting is an essential stage in the design of a high-quality choice experiment and involves engaging with representatives of the target population to improve the readability, presentation, and structure of the preference instrument. The goal of pretesting in DCEs is to improve the validity, reliability, and relevance of the survey, while decreasing sources of bias, burden, and error associated with preference elicitation, data collection, and interpretation of the data. Despite its value to inform DCE design, pretesting lacks documented good practices or clearly reported applied examples. The purpose of this paper is: (1) to define pretesting and describe the pretesting process specifically in the context of a DCE, (2) to present a practical guide and pretesting interview discussion template for researchers looking to conduct a rigorous pretest of a DCE, and (3) to provide an illustrative example of how these resources were operationalized to inform the design of a complex DCE aimed at eliciting tradeoffs between personal privacy and societal benefit in the context of a police method known as investigative genetic genealogy (IGG).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.