Table 1.
Areas of study application
| Category | Category details | Number of papers 1990–2000 | Number of papers 2001–2008 | Number of papers 2009–2012 | Number of papers current: 2013–2017 | Study numbers current: 2013–2017 N = 301a | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 34a | (%)b | N = 114a | (%)b | N = 179a | (%)b | N = 301a | (%)b | |||
| A | Patient consumer experience | 12 | (35) | 40 | (35) | 24 | (12) | 105 | (35) | [40–147] |
| B | Valuing health outcomes | 3 | (9) | 8 | (7) | 13 | (7) | 23 | (8) | [148–170] |
| C | Investigating trade-offs between health outcomes and patient or consumer experience factors | 14 | (41) | 38 | (33) | 81 | (45) | 47 | (16) | [171–217] |
| D | Estimating utility weights within the QALY framework | 0 | (0) | 2 | (2) | 4 | (2) | 13 | (4) | [218–230] |
| E | Job choices | 2 | (6) | 5 | (4) | 8 | (4) | 17 | (6) | [231–247] |
| F | Developing priority setting frameworks | 2 | (6) | 6 | (5) | 23 | (13) | 27 | (9) | [248–274] |
| G | Health professionals’ preferences for treatment or screening options for patients | 1 | (3) | 17 | (15) | 23 | (13) | 19 | (6) | [275–293] |
| H | Other | 0 | (0) | 4 | (4) | 21 | (12) | 46 | (15) | [296–341] |
| I | Not reported | N/C | N/C | N/C | N/C | N/C | N/C | 4 | (1) | [342, 343, 366, 367] |
N/C not collected (data were not collected for this specific category), QALY quality-adjusted life year
aNumbers of individual studies might not add up to total Ns as some studies addressed multiple topics
bPercentages might not add up to 100% because some studies addressed multiple topics and because of rounding error