What we do

By quantifying what patients value across treatment attributes and levels, we are able to map the value framework they apply in treatment decisions and simulate how people prefer different treatment profiles.

The patient evidence generated by this approach is increasingly used across the therapy development process, from early innovation to market access and reimbursement to ensure treatments and outcomes align with patient values. In addition to patients, this approach can also be applied to caregivers and health care professionals (HCPs), including general practitioners (GPs), specialists, nurses, and pharmacists.

By analysing the choices of participants from a series of statements where they select the best and worst options from a subset, we gain valuable insights into the relative importance of different treatment goals.

The information gleaned from this approach is vital to understanding optimal treatment outcomes to enhance patient satisfaction. This ensures that treatment decisions align with individual preferences, leading to more effective and patient-focused healthcare strategies. In addition to patients, this approach can also be applied to caregivers and health care professionals (HCPs), including general practitioners (GPs), specialists, nurses, and pharmacists.

By giving patients the opportunity to identify and reflect on their personal preferences, we can help facilitate shared decision-making conversations between patients and their healthcare team. In this approach, patients receive real-time feedback summarising their treatment priorities after they complete a preference task. This information can then be used to help guide treatment discussions, by ensuring patients' values and individual circumstances are taken into account during treatment decision-making.

ChoiceApp is a mobile application developed by CaPPRe, which can be used as an easily accessible platform for shared decision-making. Please visit https://www.choiceapp.com.au/ to learn more about ChoiceApp, what it offers patients, healthcare providers and academics, and how it is currently being used in the area of multiple myeloma.

Research is conducted with patients to determine the importance and satisfaction scores of various healthcare aspects of their patient journey, and to derive an individual and an overall Patient Journey Index (PJI).

Findings enable the identification of satisfaction gaps (healthcare aspects with high importance but low satisfaction) to determine priority areas for improvement to increase patient satisfaction, as well as potential solutions to address these gaps.

Taking effective and meaningful actions to improve experiences within the patient journey allow for higher satisfaction and better patient outcomes.

By understanding how the cost of treatment impacts healthcare decisions, we are able to determine the willingness to pay at different price points and the trade-offs people are prepared to make for varying levels of treatment attributes based on cost.

This knowledge is essential for decision-makers in terms of healthcare solutions, enabling them to understand the value of treatments and empower access to effective and affordable treatment options that align with patient preferences.

By measuring community preferences, we can quantify the value of major infrastructure developments, policy changes, conservation strategies, and more. Including both market and non-market valuations, these outputs are used in economic analysis and business cases to inform how well the project benefits stack up against project costs.

Non-market valuation involves valuing the benefits of projects/policies which are not directly traded in markets, for example environment, government infrastructure, arts and culture, natural resources, or public health interventions. CaPPRe has conducted non-market valuation extensively in various project evaluations and policy contexts to value:

• Green infrastructure and public spaces
• Endangered wildlife
• National parks and nature reserves
• Australian cultural heritage
• Historical archives and records
• Water services

Our studies determine the non-market value, also known as the consumer surplus, for the proposed projects/policies. These outputs are used in economic appraisals to help decision-makers to assess projects/policies and decide whether to implement them.

Our team brings a world of multidisciplinary and social research experience to its community projects.

By measuring the wellbeing of people in the community across areas that affect their lives, we are able to understand what the community values. For this we use a standardised, validated approach which ensures that findings are robust and quantifiable.

Research into wellbeing helps to focus efforts on areas that matter to the community, and can be used to develop and measure the impact of policy decisions aimed at improving the wellbeing of the general community.

The planning and scoping of large infrastructure projects often benefit from having the values of the general public included in terms of what is important to them and how much they are willing to pay for it. As projects affect the public in different ways, the perspectives of the public can guide the areas to focus on and inform the aspects that deliver valued benefits to the general public.