Public versus patient health preferences: protocol for a study to elicit EQ-5D-5L health state valuations for patients who have survived a stay in intensive care.

Under Danish regulations, ethical approval is not required for studies of this type. Written informed consent will be obtained from all patients. The study results will be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at national and international conferences. The modelling algorithms will be publicly available for statistical software, such as Stata and R.