PMID- 16409523 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060427 LR - 20151119 IS - 1155-5645 (Print) IS - 1155-5645 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 1 DP - 2006 Jan TI - Parents' willingness to pay for diminishing children's pain during blood sampling. PG - 11-8 AB - BACKGROUND: Blood sampling is a frequent medical procedure, very often considered as a stressful experience by children. Local anesthetics have been developed, but are expensive and not reimbursed by insurance companies in our country. We wanted to assess parents' willingness to pay (WTP) for this kind of drug. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Over 6 months, all parents of children presenting for general (GV) or specialized visit (SV) with blood sampling. WTP was assessed through three scenarios [avoiding blood sampling (ABS), using the drug on prescription (PD), or over the counter (OTC)], with a payment card system randomized to ascending or descending order of prices (AO or DO). RESULTS: Fifty-six responses were collected (34 GV, 22 SV, 27 AO and 29 DO), response rate 40%. Response distribution was wide, with median WTP of 40 for ABS, 25 for PD, 10 for OTC, which is close to the drug's real price. Responses were similar for GV and SV. Median WTP amounted to 0.71, 0.67, 0.20% of respondents' monthly income for the three scenarios, respectively, with a maximum at 10%. CONCLUSIONS: Assessing parents' WTP in an outpatient setting is difficult, with wide result distribution, but median WTP is close to the real drug price. This finding could be used to promote insurance coverage for this drug. FAU - Wasserfallen, Jean-Blaise AU - Wasserfallen JB AD - Institute of Health Economics and Management, University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland. jwasserf@chuv.hospvd.ch FAU - Currat-Zweifel, Christine AU - Currat-Zweifel C FAU - Cheseaux, Jean-Jacques AU - Cheseaux JJ FAU - Hofer, Michael AU - Hofer M FAU - Fanconi, Sergio AU - Fanconi S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial PL - France TA - Paediatr Anaesth JT - Paediatric anaesthesia JID - 9206575 RN - 0 (Anesthetics) SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Anesthetics/*economics MH - Attitude to Health MH - Child MH - Child, Preschool MH - *Cost-Benefit Analysis MH - Decision Making MH - Fees and Charges MH - Female MH - Financing, Personal MH - Humans MH - Income MH - Infant MH - Linear Models MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Pain/etiology/*prevention & control MH - Parents/*psychology MH - Phlebotomy/*psychology MH - Surveys and Questionnaires EDAT- 2006/01/18 09:00 MHDA- 2006/04/28 09:00 CRDT- 2006/01/18 09:00 PHST- 2006/01/18 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/04/28 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/01/18 09:00 [entrez] AID - PAN1673 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2005.01673.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Paediatr Anaesth. 2006 Jan;16(1):11-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2005.01673.x.