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Appendix 13<br />

hypothetical CV responses with actual market<br />

rates, so the debate must remain unresolved.<br />

In conclusion, this study developed a CV instrument<br />

to address an increasingly common issue in<br />

healthcare: Are seemingly minor improvements in<br />

the process of healthcare important to patients?<br />

Conceptual and measurement issues in the<br />

measurement of patient preferences in general,<br />

and in CV in particular, remain to be addressed.<br />

In its favour is the large body of empirical evidence<br />

and high levels of scrutiny shown in developing<br />

and testing the method. The patient, or consumer<br />

of healthcare, is having increasing influence on<br />

health policy, and rightly so. There<strong>for</strong>e, it is<br />

essential that valid methods <strong>for</strong> eliciting their<br />

preferences are developed and applied.<br />

The CV instrument developed in this study was<br />

used in the empirical study.<br />

Reproduced from Elliott and co-workers, 33 by permission of Swedish Pharmacuetical Press.

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