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Willingness to pay for a cure of low-risk melanoma patients in Germany
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 5, p e0197780 (2018), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Malignant melanoma is potentially life-threatening but in most cases curable if detected early. Willingness to pay (WTP) is a preference-based construct that reflects burden of disease by assessment of the monetary value for a hypothetical cure from disease. Since WTP (directly as total amount of money) has not been assessed so far in patients with low risk melanoma, it was interesting to gain insights in this patient population and then, in a second step, compare it directly with the WTP of their treating dermato-oncologists. WTP was assessed in 125 patients with low-risk melanoma and additionally in 105 treating physicians, asking for the one-time and continuous payments they would be willing to make for a sustainable cure, both as absolute sums and as percentages of monthly income. The median WTP based on one-time payment was €10,000 for patients and €100,000 for physicians; relative numbers were 100% versus 300% of monthly income. For continuous monthly payments, WTP was €500 for patients and €1000 for physicians, relative numbers 25% and 50% of income, respectively. Even after controlling for income differences, there was a significantly higher WTP in physicians for all four questions. Compared to patients with chronic skin diseases such as vitiligo, rosacea, atopic eczema and psoriasis, patients with low-risk melanoma showed a significantly higher WTP. Our data suggest that there is a relevant burden of disease even in patients with low-risk tumors. Higher WTP of physicians underlines the prevalence of differences in disease perception. CA extern
- Subjects :
- Melanomas
Male
Skin Neoplasms
Medical Doctors
Economics
Health Care Providers
Cancer Treatment
Medizin
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
Disease
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Cost of Illness
Medizinische Fakultät
Germany
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Odds Ratio
Public and Occupational Health
Medical Personnel
lcsh:Science
Melanoma
Multidisciplinary
Patient Preference
Middle Aged
Professions
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Income
Female
Research Article
Adult
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Health Economics
Breast cancer
Willingness to pay
Diagnostic Medicine
Physicians
Psoriasis
Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
medicine
Humans
ddc:610
Educational Attainment
Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Health economics
business.industry
lcsh:R
Cancers and Neoplasms
medicine.disease
Health Care
Rosacea
People and Places
Cutaneous melanoma
Population Groupings
lcsh:Q
business
Finance
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 5, p e0197780 (2018), PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....23f3ff868319ab29870468bf21f2ac8b