TY - JOUR AB - Compared to many applied areas of economics, health economics has a strong tradition in eliciting and using stated preferences (SP) in policy analysis. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are one SP method increasingly used in this area. Literature on DCEs in health and more generally has grown rapidly since the mid-1990s. Applications of DCEs in health have come a long way, but to date few have been 'best practice', in part because 'best practice' has been somewhat of a moving target. The purpose of this paper is to briefly survey the history of DCEs and the state of current knowledge, identify and discuss knowledge gaps, and suggest potentially fruitful areas for future research to fill such gaps with the aim of moving the application of DCEs in health economics closer to best practice. © Cambridge University Press 2009. AU - Louviere, JJ AU - Lancsar, E DA - 2009/11/10 DO - 10.1017/S1744133109990193 EP - 546 JO - Health Economics, Policy and Law PY - 2009/11/10 SP - 527 TI - Choice experiments in health: The good, the bad, the ugly and toward a brighter future VL - 4 Y1 - 2009/11/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -