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Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients

Purpose: Personal preferences play an important role in the patients’ decision process whether to adhere to treatment, or not. The purpose of this study is to assess Polish outpatients’ preferences for solid forms of oral medications across various scenarios. Methods: The convenience sample of 200 o...

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Autores principales: Kurczewska-Michalak, Marta, Kardas, Przemysław, Czajkowski, Mikołaj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155864
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12030236
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author Kurczewska-Michalak, Marta
Kardas, Przemysław
Czajkowski, Mikołaj
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Czajkowski, Mikołaj
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description Purpose: Personal preferences play an important role in the patients’ decision process whether to adhere to treatment, or not. The purpose of this study is to assess Polish outpatients’ preferences for solid forms of oral medications across various scenarios. Methods: The convenience sample of 200 outpatients took part in this study. According to the discrete choice experiment (DCE) design, participants were provided with selection of tablets and capsules, in different shapes, sizes, colors, and copayment levels and were asked to state their preferences. DCE results were analyzed using mixed logit (MXL) models. Results: MXL models revealed patients’ willingness to pay for various solid forms of medications. The most preferred combination of drug parameters were: small yellow capsule for chronic treatment, and small yellow long tablet for short-term treatment. Study participants were happy to pay extra 6.52 PLN (≈1.63 EUR) for this drug formulation per month of antihypertensive treatment, and 14.44 PLN (≈3.61 EUR) for this drug formulation per 7-days’ long course of antibiotic treatment, respectively. Conclusion: Results suggest that color, shape, and size of solid form of oral medications are important predictors of patients’ acceptance. It can not only be expressed in monetary value, but also may serve as an important hint for companies designing new drugs, or policymakers who are happy to improve patient adherence with better prescribing, or dispensing. However, our findings are probably country-specific, and further research is necessary to better understand the relationship between solid drug characteristics, and patient’s preferences across countries.
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spelling pubmed-71508582020-04-20 Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients Kurczewska-Michalak, Marta Kardas, Przemysław Czajkowski, Mikołaj Pharmaceutics Article Purpose: Personal preferences play an important role in the patients’ decision process whether to adhere to treatment, or not. The purpose of this study is to assess Polish outpatients’ preferences for solid forms of oral medications across various scenarios. Methods: The convenience sample of 200 outpatients took part in this study. According to the discrete choice experiment (DCE) design, participants were provided with selection of tablets and capsules, in different shapes, sizes, colors, and copayment levels and were asked to state their preferences. DCE results were analyzed using mixed logit (MXL) models. Results: MXL models revealed patients’ willingness to pay for various solid forms of medications. The most preferred combination of drug parameters were: small yellow capsule for chronic treatment, and small yellow long tablet for short-term treatment. Study participants were happy to pay extra 6.52 PLN (≈1.63 EUR) for this drug formulation per month of antihypertensive treatment, and 14.44 PLN (≈3.61 EUR) for this drug formulation per 7-days’ long course of antibiotic treatment, respectively. Conclusion: Results suggest that color, shape, and size of solid form of oral medications are important predictors of patients’ acceptance. It can not only be expressed in monetary value, but also may serve as an important hint for companies designing new drugs, or policymakers who are happy to improve patient adherence with better prescribing, or dispensing. However, our findings are probably country-specific, and further research is necessary to better understand the relationship between solid drug characteristics, and patient’s preferences across countries. MDPI 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7150858/ /pubmed/32155864 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12030236 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kardas, Przemysław
Czajkowski, Mikołaj
Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title_full Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title_fullStr Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title_full_unstemmed Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title_short Patients’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Solid Forms of Oral Medications—Results of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Polish Outpatients
title_sort patients’ preferences and willingness to pay for solid forms of oral medications—results of the discrete choice experiment in polish outpatients
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155864
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12030236
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