Patient-Oriented Discrete Choice Experiments

Join this one-day course and discover how to revolutionize healthcare research!

Patient-oriented research is essential for transforming healthcare and improving patient outcomes and experience. Placing the patient at the centre of research allows us to gain critical insights into their unique needs, experiences and preferences, identify gaps in care, design innovative solutions, and adapt treatments and services for specific patient populations.

Discrete choice experiments (DCE) are an approach to understanding individual preferences and making informed decisions; and have a vast array of applications in the healthcare field from individual decision-making to resource allocation and policy development.

This method combines the power of integrating the voices and perspectives of individuals to quantify and compare preferences across diverse populations, enabling you to design better interventions for specific patient groups or optimize resource allocation strategies.

Led by Mark Harrison (University of British Columbia, Canada), Associate Professor in Health Economics, this course combines a background into the tenants of patient-oriented research, an introduction to discrete choice experiments (theory, design, and analysis), and real-world case studies to provoke thoughtful discussion and critical reflection on this emerging area. No prior experience of patient-oriented research or DCE is required. This course is designed to be applicable to participants from any background.

Day Programme

09h30-12h30 Introduction to DCE methods (anatomy of a DCE, attributes and levels, experimental design, data analysis)
12h30-13h30 Lunch
13h30-16h30 Patient-oriented research using DCE (introduction to patient-oriented research, involving patients in the design of DCE, example of analysis and interpretation of a patient-oriented DCE)

Registration

Please register via this form if you would like to attend. The course is free, if you decide not to attend, please let us know as places are limited.

Organizers

For more information, please contact sandy.tubeuf@uclouvain.be or charlotte.desterbecq@uclouvain.be