Engaging the public in healthcare decision-making: quantifying preferences for healthcare through citizens' juries

Scuffham, Paul A., Ratcliffe, Julie, Kendall, Elizabeth, Burton, Paul, Wilson, Andrew, Chalkidou, Kalipso, Littlejohns, Peter and Whitty, Jennifer A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-1933 (2014) Engaging the public in healthcare decision-making: quantifying preferences for healthcare through citizens' juries. BMJ Open, 4 (5). ISSN 2044-6055

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Abstract

Introduction The optimal approach to engage the public in healthcare decision-making is unclear. Approaches range from deliberative citizens’ juries to large population surveys using discrete choice experiments. This study promotes public engagement and quantifies preferences in two key areas of relevance to the industry partners to identify which approach is most informative for informing healthcare policy. Methods and analysis The key areas identified are optimising appropriate use of emergency care and prioritising patients for bariatric surgery. Three citizens’ juries will be undertaken—two in Queensland to address each key issue and one in Adelaide to repeat the bariatric surgery deliberations with a different sample. Jurors will be given a choice experiment before the jury, immediately following the jury and at approximately 1 month following the jury. Control groups for each jury will be given the choice experiment at the same time points to test for convergence. Samples of healthcare decision-makers will be given the choice experiment as will two large samples of the population. Jury and control group participants will be recruited from the Queensland electoral roll and newspaper advertisements in Adelaide. Population samples will be recruited from a large research panel. Jury processes will be analysed qualitatively and choice experiments will be analysed using multinomial logit models and its more generalised forms. Comparisons between preferences across jurors predeliberation and postdeliberation, control participants, healthcare decision-makers and the general public will be undertaken for each key issue.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Economics Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Respiratory and Airways Group
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2016 11:00
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 01:04
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58409
DOI:	10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005437

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