Abstract / Summary
Abstract Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is performed at home, where contact with healthcare professionals between clinic visits is limited. This exploratory study examined how patients receiving PD and healthcare professionals traded off five predefined attributes of a mobile monitoring application, derived from the Korean PD home-care reimbursement framework (monthly price, regular consultation, unscheduled consultation, educational content, and data management), and estimated conditional willingness-to-pay (WTP) . Between March and May 2022, 130 patients and 32 healthcare professionals completed a forced-choice conjoint survey without an opt-out alternative. Within the experiment, price accounted for about one quarter of relative importance in both groups. Among the functional attributes, patients assigned the greatest importance to unscheduled (23.0%) and regular consultation (22.2%), whereas healthcare professionals assigned it to data management (22.4%). Both groups preferred nurse consultation over a 24-hour chatbot (part-worth utility 0.814 vs. 0.117 in patients; 0.901 vs. − 0.185 in professionals). Among healthcare professionals, perceived institutional WTP was highest for monitoring patients’ daily health records. These values were reported by individual clinicians, not institutional purchasers, and are conditional on the selected price range, an assumed linear price coefficient, and the forced-choice design. These exploratory findings describe stakeholder trade-offs within a predefined, reimbursement-based choice set and are hypothesis-generating.