Monash University Health Economics Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Health Economics Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Pharmacoeconomics. 2024 Oct;42(10):1161-1175. doi: 10.1007/s40273-024-01431-6. Epub 2024 Sep 3.
Reporting standards of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health have not kept pace with the growth of this method, with multiple reviews calling for better reporting to improve transparency, assessment of validity and translation. A key missing piece has been the absence of a reporting checklist that details minimum standards of what should be reported, as exists for many other methods used in health economics.
This paper reports the development of a reporting checklist for DCEs in health, which involved a scoping review to identify potential items and a Delphi consensus study among 45 DCE experts internationally to select items and guide the wording and structure of the checklist. The Delphi study included a best-worst scaling study for prioritisation.
The final checklist is presented along with guidance on how to apply it. This checklist can be used by authors to ensure that sufficient detail of a DCE's methods are reported, providing reviewers and readers with the information they need to assess the quality of the study for themselves. Embedding this reporting checklist into standard practice for health DCEs offers an opportunity to improve consistency of reporting standards, thereby enabling transparency of review and facilitating comparison of studies and their translation into policy and practice.
离散选择实验（DCE）在健康领域的报告标准并未跟上该方法的发展步伐，多项综述呼吁更好的报告，以提高透明度、评估有效性和可翻译性。一个关键的缺失部分是缺乏一份报告清单，详细说明应该报告的最低标准，就像健康经济学中使用的许多其他方法一样。
本文报告了健康领域 DCE 报告清单的制定，该清单涉及范围综述以确定潜在项目，以及国际 45 名 DCE 专家的德尔菲共识研究，以选择项目并指导清单的措辞和结构。德尔菲研究包括用于优先级排序的最佳最差标度研究。
最后提出了一份清单，并附有如何应用它的指南。作者可以使用这份清单来确保报告足够详细的 DCE 方法，为评审员和读者提供他们自己评估研究质量所需的信息。将这份报告清单纳入健康 DCE 的标准实践中，为提高报告标准的一致性提供了机会，从而提高了审查的透明度，并促进了研究的比较及其在政策和实践中的转化。
