ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
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
*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
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