What are GPs' preferences for financial and non-financial incentives in cancer screening? Evidence for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers

We benefited for this research from grants provided by the French National Institute for Cancer (INCa) (INCA_7014). We would like to thank Dr Diane Skatun, Mary Kilonzo, and the three anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on the paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

Weighting or aggregating? Investigating information processing in multi‐attribute choices

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The design of the choice experiment on which this paper draws was shaped by a team that included, alongside two of the authors, Professor Chris Burton, Professor Vikki Entwistle, Dr Terry Porteous and Dr Alison Elliott. The original CE study was funded by the Health Foundation. The University of Aberdeen and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates fund the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). The kidney transplantation choice experiment study was funded by the “Progetto di Ateneo KIDNEY” from the University of Padua (Italy). We would like to thank Daniel Rigby (The University of Manchester), Jürgen Maurer (Université de Lausanne), Giacomo Pasini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), and Luca Corazzini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) for their helpful comments. Funding: Health Foundation. Grant Number: THF 7264Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Keeping an eye on cost : what can eye tracking tell us about attention to cost information in discrete choice experiments?

The University of Aberdeen and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates fund the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). We thank all participants who took part in the study, Alison Findlay for help with data collection, HESG participants, the editor, anonymous reviewers, and Dr Frouke Hermens for helpful comments and suggestions on the paper. The information and views set out in the article are those of the authors.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

To pay or not to pay? : Cost information processing in the valuation of publicly funded healthcare

Acknowledgments We thank all participants who took part in the study and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on the paper. The design of the discrete choice experiment on which this paper draws was shaped by a team that included, alongside two of the authors, Professor Chris Burton, Professor Vikki Entwistle, Professor Christine Bond, Dr Terry Porteous and Dr Alison Elliott. Funding sources The original DCE study was funded by the Health Foundation. This work has been funded by the University of Aberdeen and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. These sponsors were not involved in the study design, data analysis and writing of the article. The information and views set out in the article are those of the authors.Peer reviewedPostprin

Paid work, household work, or leisure? Time allocation pathways among women following a cancer diagnosis

NG is funded by the Aberdeen-Curtin Joint Studentship (University of Aberdeen Development Trust) and the Elphinstone Scholarship Scheme.Peer reviewedPostprin

What do UK doctors in training value in a post? : A discrete choice experiment

Acknowledgements: our thanks first to the following colleagues (in alphabetical order) for their support: Professor Phillip Cachia, East of Scotland Deanery; Professor Jacky Hayden, CBE, North Western Deanery; Professor Stewart Irvine, NHS Education for Scotland; Dr Namita Kumar, Health Education North East England; Professor Alastair McLellan, West of Scotland Deanery; Professor Gillian Needham, North of Scotland Deanery; Professor William Reid, South East of Scotland Deanery; and Ms Jayne Scott, NHS Education for Scotland. Our thanks also go to the START Core Group: Professor Alastair McLellan, Professor Rowan Parks, Dr Ronald MacVicar and Ms Anne Dickson. We also thank Professor Charlotte Rees and Dr Karen Mattick for their feedback on the project proposal, the project report and the qualitative survey that informed the DCE. Our thanks to John Lemon for his sterling work and endless patience when developing and managing the online surveys. Finally, we would like to thank all the doctors in training who participated in the DCE. Funding: our thanks go to NHS Education for Scotland for funding this programme of work.Peer reviewedPostprin

Is best-worst scaling suitable for health state valuation? : A comparison with discrete choice experiments

The University of Aberdeen (UoA) and the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates fund the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). We thank all participants who took part in the study and the WH Ross foundation that supported the data collection. We also thank authors of the original study (Mary Kilonzo, Jennifer Burr and Luke Vale) for their contribution to questionnaire design and data collection. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors only and not those of the funding bodies.Peer reviewedPostprin

Measuring Public Preferences for Health Outcomes and Expenditures in a Context of Healthcare Resource Re-Allocation

Financial support for this study was provided by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). The funding agreement ensured the authors’ independence in designing the study, interpreting the data, writing, and publishing the report. The authors (Nicolas KRUCIEN; Nathalie PELLETIER-FLEURY; Amiram GAFNI) have no conflict of interest to declare.Peer reviewedPostprin

For more than money : willingness of health professionals to stay in remote Senegal

The study was funded through a Research Grant for International Health, H25-11, from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labour, Japan (http://www.ncgm.go.jp/kaihatsu/), and undertaken as part of the project Réseau Vision Tokyo 2010, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Acknowledgement The authors would like to express their profound gratitude to the fieldwork team and to the health professionals who responded to the survey questionnaire. Thanks also to four reviewers whose comments have improved the paper. The datasets used and/or analysed in the study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Peer reviewedPublisher PD