Preferences for treatment outcomes in rectal cancer: A discrete choice experiment among patients and healthy volunteers.

Aim: Treatment for rectal cancer can leave patients with a permanent stoma or bowel dysfunction. In this work we aimed to examine preferences for treatment outcomes among people with and without rectal cancer.

Method: Our discrete choice experiment examined the effect of risk of cancer recurrence, presence of a stoma and bowel dysfunction on treatment preferences in 372 rectal cancer patients without a stoma, 269 with a stoma and 204 people without cancer.

Intentional and unintentional non-adherence to medications following an acute coronary syndrome: a longitudinal study.

Objective: Non-adherence to medication is common among coronary heart disease patients. Non-adherence to medication may be either intentional or unintentional. In this analysis we provide estimates of intentional and unintentional non-adherence in the year following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS).