Article ID: | iaor20108838 |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 358 |
End Page Number: | 365 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
Journal: | Decision Analysis |
Authors: | Maillart Lisa M, Schaefer Andrew J, Roberts Mark S, Bailey Matthew D, Erkin Zeynep |
Keywords: | decision theory |
Estimating patient preferences over various health states is an important problem in health care decision modeling. Direct approaches, which involve asking patients various abstract questions, have significant drawbacks. We propose a new approach that infers patient preferences based on observed decisions via inverse optimization techniques. We illustrate our methods on the timing of a living‐donor liver transplant.