... economics to assess patient preferences, prioritize them and help health policy makers improve services. Discrete choice experiment (DCE) is one method that is useful to elicit patient preferences regarding healthcare services. The purpose of this paper is to apply DCE and elicit patient preferences...

... to the diagnosis. Practical implications – Cancer patients prefer a short waiting time before the first visit but have different expectations and needs regarding waiting time before treatment. Ideally, their expectations are managed by their treating physician to match waiting time reality. Originality...

..., has not been reported on. There is a growing body of literature regarding patient preferences on health policies including medical institution selection (Akinci et al., 2004 ; Burns and Wholey, 1992 ; Gooding, 1995 ; Heischmidt and Heischmidt, 1991 ; Heischmidt et al., 1993...