Decoding patient preferences: key drivers in selecting thyroid cancer surgery- a discrete choice experiment
Shiwei Zhou, Yu Mao, Peng Wu, Wu Li, Hui Li, Xiaohua Song, Xiaoyong Wen, Zeyu Li, Guangji Chen, Xiaowei Peng · 2026
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Description
Shiwei Zhou and colleagues present a 2026 choice experiment asking what drives patients with papillary thyroid cancer when they pick a surgical approach, including a scarless route through the mouth. Two hundred seventy-one patients awaiting thyroid surgery weighed made-up options that varied on six features.
Scenarios differed by cut location and size, recurrence rate, operating time, complication rate, and cost, and answers were modelled statistically. Recurrence risk dominated every other concern, and patients said they would pay an extra ¥201,409.60 to cut it from 10 percent to 1 percent in the scenarios offered. Scarless surgery came next, ahead of complications. Worry about appearance also varied by sex, age, schooling, and income, shaping how talks before surgery should run.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shiwei Zhou, Yu Mao, Peng Wu, Wu Li, Hui Li, Xiaohua Song, Xiaoyong Wen, Zeyu Li, Guangji Chen, Xiaowei Peng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43493 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |