PHRM 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Shared Decision-Making In Medicine, Conjoint Analysis
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Risk-benefit consideration in clinical decision making (part 2) In many instances (e. g. fda approvals), such weighting is based on expert opinion. Conjoint analysis : survey-based statistical technique used in market/health research that helps determine how people value different attributes (feature, function, benefits) that make up an individual product or service. Through a series of choice experiments: in each set, we ask the participant to select one (or none) of the competing options. Once repeated multiple time by several individuals, data can be analyzed to quantify the relative weights. Ra is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting many organs mainly joints. With early diagnosis and drug treatment, ra can be successfully managed. New research is finding that it may be possible to predict who may develop ra, and that some ra treatments may help prevent the disease from developing. Moving away from paternalistic care towards shared decision making.
