Fig 1.
Example scenario comparison in DCE portion of the survey.
Table 1.
Attributes and levels selected for conjoint analysis.
Table 2.
Nephrologists’ demographics and facility characteristics.
Fig 2.
Average patient attribute importance.
Factors that trigger treatment for VDI and SHPT in patients with pre-dialysis CKD stage 3–5; ordered by relative importance as indicated by conjoint analysis part-worth utilities.
Fig 3.
Displayed by patient attribute and levels within each attribute.
Fig 4.
Patient profiles by likelihood to receive treatment with a VDT.
Based on addition of average part worth utility values of selected patient attributes and their levels and comparison with the average part worth none utility value of 20.