IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/medema/v5y1985i4p453-463.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Eliciting Preferences for Alternative Cancer Drug Treatments

Author

Listed:
  • Annette M. Cormier O'Connor
  • Norman F. Boyd
  • David L. Tritchler
  • Yuri Kriukov
  • Heather Sutherland
  • James E. Till

Abstract

In oncology there is increasing interest in the development of techniques to help patients choose between alternative therapies in ways that are consistent with their preferences. The purpose of this study was to examine some methodological problems associated with the elicitation of preferences. Preferences for alternative drug therapies were sought from 208 visitors to an open house at the Ontario Cancer Institute and from 216 university nursing students. Preferences were not significantly dependent on the sex, age or professional status of the respondents, nor on the medium used for elicitation of preferences (computer terminal versus pencil-and-paper questionnaire). In contrast, the importance of the way decision problems are framed was confirmed. Comparison of a positive frame (outcomes expressed as the probability of surviving) with a negative frame (outcomes expressed as the probability of dying) and a mixed frame (probabilities of surviving and dying were both given) pointed to the presence or absence of the word "survive" in the outcome description as the main source of framing bias. The framing effect was in the opposite direction to that hypothesized. (Med Decis Making 5 :453-463, 1985)

Suggested Citation

  • Annette M. Cormier O'Connor & Norman F. Boyd & David L. Tritchler & Yuri Kriukov & Heather Sutherland & James E. Till, 1985. "Eliciting Preferences for Alternative Cancer Drug Treatments," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 5(4), pages 453-463, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:5:y:1985:i:4:p:453-463
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X8500500408
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0272989X8500500408
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0272989X8500500408?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. H. Llewellyn-Thomas & H.J. Sutherland & R. Tibshirani & A. Ciampi & J.E. Till & N.F. Boyd, 1982. "The Measurement of Patients' Values in Medicine," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 2(4), pages 449-462, December.
    2. Stephen A. Eraker & Harold C. Sox, 1981. "Assessment of Patients' Preferences for Therapeutic Outcomes," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 1(1), pages 29-39, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jonathan R. Treadwell & Leslie A. Lenert, 1999. "Health Values and Prospect Theory," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 19(3), pages 344-352, August.
    2. Jose Luis Pinto-Prades & Jorge E. Martinez Perez & Jose María Abellán Perpiñán, 2006. "The influence of the Ratio Bias phenomenon on the elicitation of Standard Gamble utilities," Working Papers 06.16, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
    3. Dennis J. Mazur & David H. Hickam, 1990. "Treatment Preferences of Patients and Physicians," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 10(1), pages 2-5, February.
    4. Kuhberger, Anton, 1998. "The Influence of Framing on Risky Decisions: A Meta-analysis," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 23-55, July.
    5. Eyal Gamliel & Hamutal Kreiner, 2013. "Is a picture worth a thousand words? The interaction of visual display and attribute representation in attenuating framing bias}," Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 8(4), pages 482-491, July.
    6. Lionel M. Bernstein & Gretchen B. Chapman & Arthur S. Elstein, 1999. "Framing Effects in Choices between Multioutcome Life-expectancy Lotteries," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 19(3), pages 324-338, August.
    7. repec:cup:judgdm:v:8:y:2013:i:4:p:482-491 is not listed on IDEAS

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mark S. Thompson, 1983. "Health Versus Money," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 3(3), pages 285-297, August.
    2. N/A, 1987. "Editorials," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 7(3), pages 136-137, August.
    3. Mark Sculpher & Amiram Gafni, 2001. "Recognizing diversity in public preferences: The use of preference sub‐groups in cost‐effectiveness analysis," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 10(4), pages 317-324, June.
    4. Han Bleichrodt, 2002. "A new explanation for the difference between time trade‐off utilities and standard gamble utilities," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 11(5), pages 447-456, July.
    5. Kuhberger, Anton, 1998. "The Influence of Framing on Risky Decisions: A Meta-analysis," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 23-55, July.
    6. Han Bleichrodt & Jose Maria Abellan-Perpiñan & Jose Luis Pinto-Prades & Ildefonso Mendez-Martinez, 2007. "Resolving Inconsistencies in Utility Measurement Under Risk: Tests of Generalizations of Expected Utility," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 53(3), pages 469-482, March.
    7. Adam Oliver, 2005. "Testing the internal consistency of the lottery equivalents method using health outcomes," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(2), pages 149-159, February.
    8. Kharroubi, Samer & Brazier, John E. & O'Hagan, Anthony, 2007. "Modelling covariates for the SF-6D standard gamble health state preference data using a nonparametric Bayesian method," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 64(6), pages 1242-1252, March.
    9. Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades & Jorge-Eduardo Martinez-Perez & Jose-Maria Abellan-Perpinan, 2006. "The influence of the ratio bias phenomenon on the elicitation of health states utilities," Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 1, pages 118-133, November.
    10. Stefan A. Lipman & Arthur E. Attema, 2019. "Rabin's paradox for health outcomes," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(8), pages 1064-1071, August.
    11. Dennis J. Mazur, 1986. "Court Viewpoints and Medical Decision Making," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 6(4), pages 224-230, December.
    12. repec:cup:judgdm:v:1:y:2006:i::p:118-133 is not listed on IDEAS
    13. N/A, 1987. "Risk Preference and laboratory Utilization," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 7(3), pages 135-136, August.
    14. Bleichrodt, Han & Quiggin, John, 2013. "Capabilities as menus: A non-welfarist basis for QALY evaluation," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(1), pages 128-137.
    15. Heather J. Sutherland & Virginia Dunn & Norman F. Boyd, 1983. "Measurement of Values for States of Health with Linear Analog Scales," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 3(4), pages 477-487, December.
    16. Dolan, P. & Gudex, C. & Kind, P. & Williams, A., 1996. "Valuing health states: A comparison of methods," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 209-231, April.
    17. Stephen D. Nightingale, 1987. "Risk Preference and Laboratory Use," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 7(3), pages 168-172, August.
    18. Arthur E. Attema & Werner B.F. Brouwer, 2014. "Deriving Time Discounting Correction Factors For Tto Tariffs," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(4), pages 410-425, April.
    19. David Parkin & Nancy Devlin, 2006. "Is there a case for using visual analogue scale valuations in cost‐utility analysis?," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(7), pages 653-664, July.
    20. Robert F. Nease JR. & Yann Bonduelle, 1987. "Solid Recommendations from Soft Numbers," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 7(4), pages 220-233, December.
    21. Raisa B. Deber & Vivek Goel, 1990. "Using Explicit Decision Rules to Manage Issues of Justice, Risk, and Ethics in Decision Analysis," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 10(3), pages 181-194, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:5:y:1985:i:4:p:453-463. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.