15 July 2021 - Health technology assessment agencies vary in their use of quantitative patient preference data and the extent to which they have formalised this use in their guidelines. 

Based on the authors' knowledge of the literature, we identified six different patient preference “use cases” that integrate patient preference into health technology assessment in five different ways: through endpoint selection, clinical benefit rating, predicting uptake, input into economic evaluation, and a means to weight all health technology assessment criteria.

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