Women’s preferences for inpatient and outpatient priming for labour induction: a discrete choice experiment

Table 5 Tradeoffs between extra trips to hospital and extra minutes of travel time to hospital and other attributes

Preferred attribute level	Number of extra trips women prepared to accept to have preferred attribute level^a	Extra travel time per trip women prepared to accept to have preferred attribute level^b	Total extra minutes of travel time women prepared to accept to get preferred attribute level
Environment while waiting for gels to work
Own home	1.42 extra trips (2.42 trips total)	30.6 minutes per trip	73.3 minutes^c
Private room with private bath	n/a		54.7 minutes^d
Familiarity with midwife
One of a team of 4–5 midwives met before (vs rostered midwife)
Outpatient	0.24 extra trips (1.24 trips total)	5.1 minutes per trip	6.3 minutes^c
Enhanced inpatient	n/a		14.2 minutes^d
One of a pair of midwives met before (vs rostered midwife)
Outpatient	0.47 extra trips (1.47 trips total)	10.1 minutes per trip	14.9 minutes^c
Enhanced inpatient	n/a		28.5 minutes^d
A midwife that they know well (vs rostered midwife)
Outpatient	0.71 extra trips (1.71 trips total)	15.2 minutes per trip	26.0 minutes^c
Enhanced inpatient	n/a		42.7 minutes^d

^aβownhome/βtrips; (βmidwifeOP *attribute LevelmidwifeOP)/βtrips.
^bβownhome/βtraveltimeOP; (βmidwifeOP *attribute LevelmidwifeOP)/βtraveltimeOP.
^ctotal trips (column2) *minutes per trip (column3) = total minutes.
^dβprivateroom&bath/βtraveltimeIP; (βmidwifeIP *attribute LevelmidwifeIP)/βtraveltimeIP.

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