Patient preferences for physical therapy programs after a lower extremity fracture: a discrete choice experiment.

Natasha S McKibbenLucas S MarchandHaley K DemyanovichKathleen M HealeyNicolas ZingasKatherine O'ConnorGerard P SlobogeanRobert V O'TooleRobert V O'Toole

Published in: BMJ open (2023)

Patients with lower extremity fractures highly value recovering mobility and are willing to pay more for postoperative physical therapy programmes that facilitate returning to their pre-injury mobility level. These patient preferences might be useful when prescribing and designing new techniques for postoperative therapy.

Keyphrases

patients undergoing
case report
primary care
decision making
adverse drug
hip fracture