A utilização da experiência de escolha discreta na valoração de estados de saúde

Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) is a technique for preferences elicitation that recently started to be used in health economics. This study aimed to identify and describe the stages of design construction of this technique and to assess their implementation in health economics papers that address the elicitation of health state values. Published research studies were selected implementing DCE in the valuation of health status. All nine evaluated studies explain the five main: identification of attributes, identification of levels of attributes, experimental design, data collection and analysis. The analysis performed evidenced that the DCE building steps are in general followed.