Title |
Exploring what lies behind public preferences for avoiding health losses caused by lapses in healthcare safety and patient lifestyle choices
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, July 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-13-249 |
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Authors |
Jeshika Singh, Louise Longworth, Amanda Baine, Joanne Lord, Shepley Orr, Martin Buxton |
Abstract |
Although many studies have identified public preferences for prioritising health care interventions based on characteristics of recipient or care, very few of them have examined the reasons for the stated preferences. We conducted an on-line person trade-off (PTO) study (N=1030) to investigate whether the public attach a premium to the avoidance of ill health associated with alternative types of responsibilities: lapses in healthcare safety, those caused by individual action or lifestyle choice; or genetic conditions. We found that the public gave higher priority to prevention of harm in a hospital setting such as preventing hospital associated infections than genetic disorder but drug administration errors were valued similar to genetic disorders. Prevention of staff injuries, lifestyle diseases and sports injuries, were given lower priority. In this paper we aim to understand the reasoning behind the responses by analysing comments provided by respondents to the PTO questions. |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
Ecuador | 1 | 25% |
Unknown | 1 | 25% |
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Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
Canada | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 41 | 95% |
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Student > Master | 10 | 23% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 16% |
Researcher | 5 | 12% |
Other | 3 | 7% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
Other | 4 | 9% |
Unknown | 11 | 26% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 21% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 14% |
Social Sciences | 5 | 12% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 9% |
Sports and Recreations | 2 | 5% |
Other | 4 | 9% |
Unknown | 13 | 30% |