Patient Preferences for Diabetes Treatment Attributes and Drug Classes.

CONCLUSIONS: Although preferences varied across participants, attributes with the greatest likelihood of affecting daily life and routine were generally more influential in determining patient preferences. DPP-4i and SGLT-2i were overwhelmingly preferred over other drug classes, primarily due to favorable regimen and side effect profiles. Understanding patient preferences can help optimize patient-centered treatment and may lead to improved patient satisfaction, adherence, and outcomes.
LIMITATIONS: The primary limitations of this study are that a small sample size of type 1 diabetes patients were included, which may reduce reliability of the preference estimates, and patients were recruited from an patient panel and may not be representative patients with diabetes in the U.S.
PMID: 27779433 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - October 27, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research