Are patients willing to pay for total shoulder arthroplasty? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment | Zendy

Nathan N. O’Hara | Zendy; Gerard P. Slobogean | Zendy; Tima Mohammadi | Zendy; Carlo A. Marra | Zendy; Milena Vicente | Zendy; Amir Khakban | Zendy; Michael D. McKee | Zendy

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Are patients willing to pay for total shoulder arthroplasty? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Author(s) -

Nathan N. O’Hara,

Gerard P. Slobogean,

Tima Mohammadi,

Carlo A. Marra,

Milena Vicente,

Amir Khakban,

Michael D. McKee

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.011915

Subject(s) - medicine , willingness to pay , arthroplasty , logistic regression , preference , physical therapy , patient satisfaction , mixed logit , surgery , statistics , mathematics , economics , microeconomics

Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is a common treatment to decrease pain and improve shoulder function in patients with severe osteoarthritis (OA). In Canada, patients requiring this procedure often wait a year or more. Our objective was to determine patient preferences related to accessing TSA, specifically comparing out-of-pocket payments for treatment, travel time to hospital, the surgeon's level of experience and wait times.

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