ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
[Posted on behalf of the Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen]
Involving the public in health care decisions: The use of discrete choice experiments
Friday the 6th of June 2008, Point Conference Centre, 34 Bread Street, EDINBURGH
Greater patient and community involvement in health care decision-making is advocated. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a method for eliciting patient and community preferences in health care, which estimate a quantifiable measure of value for use at the policy level. This conference will present an overview of work conducted at the Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen. In particular:
* Public preferences for alternative models of care in pharmacy
* How the public's preferences can be incorporated into NHS priority setting.
* Whether the public want the characteristics of respondents to be considered when taking account of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) gained as a result of interventions
The audience...
* Policy makers from the Scottish Government Health Directorate
* Senior officials from NHS Boards; and
* Academics and economists with an interest in eliciting preferences for the delivery of health care.
Registration is £35 per person
For further information about the Conference and to register see www.abdn.ac.uk/heru under the heading "DCE Policy Conference".
HERU Secretary
Health Economics Research Unit (HERU)
Room 1:063,
Polwarth Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
Tel: (01224) 553480
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