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March 15, 2026Value in Health0 citationsOpen Access

Beyond the Average: Modelling Individual-Specific Preferences for Ulcerative Colitis Surgery

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NWNyantara WickramasekeraDRDonna RowenSBSteve Brown

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore and model individual-specific preferences related to ulcerative colitis surgery.
  • Used conditional distributions to analyze preference data.
  • Compared simpler models to assess efficacy.
  • Examined treatment decision-making processes among patients.
  • Found significant variation in patient preferences for surgery.
  • Conditional choice probabilities provided better insights than simpler models.

Abstract

This study demonstrates the value of using conditional distributions to examine preference heterogeneity. Simpler models failed to reveal the wide range of preferences present in the data. Conditional choice probabilities can be used to better understand how different patients make treatment decisions.

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Wickramasekera et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b64c33b42794e3e660d97fhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2026.02.010
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