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Sample Size Requirements for Discrete-Choice Experiments in Healthcare: a Practical Guide

Overview of attention for article published in The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, March 2015
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Title
Sample Size Requirements for Discrete-Choice Experiments in Healthcare: a Practical Guide
Published in
The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, March 2015
DOI 10.1007/s40271-015-0118-z
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Authors

Esther W. de Bekker-Grob, Bas Donkers, Marcel F. Jonker, Elly A. Stolk

Abstract

Discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) have become a commonly used instrument in health economics and patient-preference analysis, addressing a wide range of policy questions. An important question when setting up a DCE is the size of the sample needed to answer the research question of interest. Although theory exists as to the calculation of sample size requirements for stated choice data, it does not address the issue of minimum sample size requirements in terms of the statistical power of hypothesis tests on the estimated coefficients. The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to provide insight into whether and how researchers have dealt with sample size calculations for healthcare-related DCE studies; (2) to introduce and explain the required sample size for parameter estimates in DCEs; and (3) to provide a step-by-step guide for the calculation of the minimum sample size requirements for DCEs in health care.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Unknown 790 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 142 18%
Student > Master 126 16%
Researcher 123 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 62 8%
Student > Bachelor 48 6%
Other 106 13%
Unknown 191 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 112 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 96 12%
Social Sciences 70 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 6%
Engineering 43 5%
Other 197 25%
Unknown 235 29%
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