For optimal solutions in health care, decision makers inevitably must evaluate trade-offs, which call for multiattribute valuation methods. Researchers have proposed using best-worst scaling (BWS) methods which seek to extract information from respondents by asking them to identify the best and...

BACKGROUND: New and better methods are constantly being developed in applied research. Eventually, state-of-the-art procedures become state-of-the-practice procedures that are required for peer-reviewed publications. These methods have been extensively used and tested for validity in...