Patient and healthcare professional preferences among predefined features of a peritoneal dialysis monitoring application in South Korea: an exploratory choice-based conjoint study
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.
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BibTeX
@article{kim2026patient,
title = {{Patient and healthcare professional preferences among predefined features of a peritoneal dialysis monitoring application in South Korea: an exploratory choice-based conjoint study}},
author = {KyungYi Kim and Taeyeon Kim and Sang Gyu Lee and Beom Seok Kim and Hyung Woo Kim},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1038/s41598-026-73918-5},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-73918-5},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Patient and healthcare professional preferences among predefined features of a peritoneal dialysis monitoring application in South Korea: an exploratory choice-based conjoint study
AU - KyungYi Kim
AU - Taeyeon Kim
AU - Sang Gyu Lee
AU - Beom Seok Kim
AU - Hyung Woo Kim
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/02
JO - Scientific Reports
DO - 10.1038/s41598-026-73918-5
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-73918-5
AB - 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.
SN - 2045-2322
ER -