Conference materials from the 7th conference, Boston, 2010
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| Time | Title/Presenter | Materials | |
| Friday | |||
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| 2:30 PM | Keynote Address | ||
| Universal Coverage in Massachusetts: How it Affects Resource Allocation and the Care of Disadvantaged Populations | |||
| JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services, State of Massachusetts, United States | Slides MP3 | ||
| 3:15 PM | Plenary | ||
| Have we got our priorities right? Child mortality, the Millennium Development Goal 4 and its impact on inequality in health in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Ole Norheim, MD, PhD, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway | Slides MP3 | ||
| Using evaluation theory to improve priority setting in the healthcare sector | |||
| Neale Smith, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Slides | ||
| A new decision-support framework for prioritization of new health technologies: the ‘Value for Money’ chart | |||
| Ofra Golan, LLB, MA, LLD, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel |
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| Saturday | |||
| 8:30 AM | Public Debate, Dialogue and Deliberation | ||
| Explicating social values for the allocation of health care resources (0094) | |||
| Tania Stafanski, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | Slides | ||
| Moving away from silent trepidation: improving the language of rationing (0018) | |||
| Greer Donley, pre-doctoral fellow, BA, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States | Slides | ||
| Should we make the priority setting process more explicit to the public? (0089) | |||
| Benedict Rumbold, PhD, Nuffield Trust, London, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting at National Level | |||
| What matters most: identifying medical problems as priorities for healthcare coverage (0012) | |||
| Marjorie Ginsburg, MPH, Center for Healthcare Decisions, Rancho Cordova, CA, United States | Slides | ||
| Some uses and abuses of the cost-per-QALY approach in England and Finland (0085) | |||
| Neill Booth, PhD candidate, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland | Slides | ||
| Departing from the health maximization approach: case studies of social value judgments made by NICE advisory committees (0026) | |||
| Koonal Shah, MSc, Office of Health Economics, London, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting in Low-Income Settings | |||
| Decentralized health care priority setting in Tanzania: evaluating against the accountability, for reasonableness framework (0001) | |||
| Stephen Maluka, MA, PhD candidate, Umeå International School of Public Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania | Slides | ||
| “In plenty and in time of need” - the political economy of allocating public resources to health in Barbados (0084) | |||
| Jamila Headley, PhD candidate, MPH, BA, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Assessing reliability and validity of decisions made during priority setting of malaria services and ITNs in Zambia (0017) | |||
| Mary Tuba, PhD candidate, MA, BSW, Center for International Health, Bergen, Norway | Slides | ||
| Ethical Aspects in Priority Setting | |||
| The rule of rescue in allocating health care resources (0077) | |||
| Alena Buyx, MD, MA, Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Muenster, Germany, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Just health: on the conditions why doctors should give priority to patients of low socioeconomic status (0057) | |||
| Kristine Bærøe, PhD, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway | |||
| 10:30 AM | Public Debate Dialogue and Deliberation | ||
| A decade of public deliberations about health coverage priorities using CHAT (0029) | |||
| Susan Dorr Goold, MD, MHSA, MA, Professor of Internal Medicine, Director, Bioethics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Slides | ||
| Community-wide surveys of public preferential attitudes for elective healthcare options: some covert study design issues (0015) | |||
| R. Trafford Crump, PhD candidate, MPA, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH, United States | Slides | ||
| Comparing marginal and standard approaches to eliciting willingness to pay: a case study of measuring the benefits of emergency and out-of-hours services (0028) | |||
| Cam Donaldson, PhD, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom | |||
| Priority Setting at Local Level | |||
| To fund or not to fund: A generalized decision-making model for health care resource allocation (0095) | |||
| Devidas Menon, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | Slides | ||
| Priority setting in practice: procedure, results and participants' Opinions (0054) | |||
| Susanne Waldau, PhD candidate, MPH, Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå, Sweden, Västerbotten County Council, Umeå, Sweden | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting in Low-Income Settings | |||
| An evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions for neurological disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: the case for neuro-infections in Tanzania (0061) | |||
| Lucie Jean-Gilles, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Clinical Neurology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante, MD, East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom | |||
| Lessons from applying accountability for reasonableness to priority setting at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia (0079) | |||
| Jens Byskov, MD, MSc, DPH, Spec. PH, DBL-Centre for Health and Development, Frederiksberg, Denmark | Slides | ||
| Decentralization and health care prioritization process in Tanzania: from national rhetoric to local reality (0002) | |||
| Stephen Maluka, PhD candidate, MA, Umeå International School of Public Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Institute of Developmental Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania | Slides | ||
| Ethical Aspects in Priority Setting | |||
| McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) priority setting A4R and beyond (0060) | |||
| Teresa Mack, BSc, MHA, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||
| Tim Meagher, MD, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Slides | ||
| Incentivizing organ donation: a Swedish priority setting Perspective (0048) | |||
| Faisal Omar, PhD candidate, MA, BHSc, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden | Slides | ||
| 12:00 | Keynote | ||
| The Disease Control Priorities Project:Accomplishments and Future Challenges | |||
| Dean T. Jamison, PhD, Professor of Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington | Slides MP3 | ||
| 1:30 PM | Public Debate Dialogue and Deliberation | ||
| Employing public engagement to achieve better decision-making in health care: findings from three “Canadian” citizens’ councils (0021) | |||
| Michelle Cleghorn, graduate student, University of Toronto Institute of Medical Science, and the Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Slides | ||
| Age as a criterion for priority setting in health care services? (0075) | |||
| Adele Diederich, PhD, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany | Slides | ||
| The rise of prevention in health care priority setting: the Israeli Experience (0046) | |||
| David Chinitz, PhD, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting at Local Level | |||
| Priority setting in difficult times: the English experience (0003) | |||
| Suzanne Robinson, PhD, MSc, BSc, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Embarking on transparent priority setting - different strategies in Sweden (0062) | |||
| Peter Garpenby, National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care, Linköping, Sweden | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting in HIV/AIDS | |||
| Examining the impact of decision irreversibility in HIV/AIDS programme prioritization in the context of the global economic crisis: a case study of Malawi (0091) | |||
| Paul Revill, MSc, BA, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland | Slides | ||
| Should the ideal of health maximization or equality decide who should be initiated on antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings? (0058) | |||
| Kjell Arne Johansson, MD, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway | Slides | ||
| HIV and AIDS as a health sector priority in a developing country: the case of Cameroon (0092) | |||
| Wilfred Awung, MSc, Agricultural Economics, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, MD, United States | Slides | ||
| Ethical Aspects in Priority Setting | |||
| The role of ethics committees and ethics consultation in priority setting: an evidence-based analysis (0050) | |||
| Daniel Strech, MD, PhD, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany | Slides | ||
| Marginal effectiveness of treatments: a potential rationing criterion? (0076) | |||
| Alena Buyx, MD, MA, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, United Kingdom; Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Muenster, Germany | Slides | ||
| Fairness and accountability during delivery of malaria services and ITN intervention in Zambia (0019) | |||
| Øystein Olsen, MD, Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium | |||
| Mary Tuba, PhD candidate, MA, BSW, Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, The Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia | Slides | ||
| End-of-life decisions as bedside rationing: an ethical analysis of life support restrictions in an Indian neonatal unit (0068) | |||
| Ingrid Miljeteig, MD, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway | Slides | ||
| 3:30 PM | Clinical Applications of Priority Setting | ||
| Effects of a program to set patient priorities during advanced Illness (0020) | |||
| Helen D. Blank, PhD, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School-Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism in Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, United States | Slides | ||
| Consensus-based priority setting for frail elderly NSTEMI (Non ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction) patients (0045) | |||
| Niklas Ekerstad, MD, The Centre for Medical Technology Assessment/IMH, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden | Slides | ||
| Evidence-based marginal analysis: cost-effectiveness of MRI and mammography for breast cancer screening among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (0053) | |||
| Reka Pataky, MSc, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada | Slides | ||
| Altering clinical practice through national decisions on priority setting: the case of sleep apnoea (OSAS) in Norway (0009) | |||
| Ånen Ringard, Political Scientist, The Norwegian Council for Priority Setting in Health Care, Oslo, Norway | |||
| Supporting Tough Decisions in Health Care | |||
| The Link Between HTA and Priority Setting (0024) | Slides | ||
| Per Carlson PhD, National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care, Sweden | |||
| Berit Mørland, PhD, Norwegian Council for Priority Setting in Health Care | Slides | ||
| Ole Frithjof Norheim, MD, PhD, University of Bergen, Norway | Slides | ||
| Steven Pearson MD, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), USA | Slides | ||
| Priority Setting At Local Level | |||
| TAVI - slowing the pressure so as to establish the right evidence base and the real value for health services (0073) | |||
| Jonathan Howell, MD, BS, West Midlands Specialised Commissioning Team, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Priority setting as governance in the UK National Health Service (0065) | |||
| Tim Freeman, PhD, MSc, BA, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Priority setting in Ontario's LHINs: ethical and economic principles in action (0071) | |||
| Jennifer Gibson, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Slides | ||
| Practical Advances in Priority Setting - Program Budgeting and Marginal Analysis | |||
| Cancer care decision-makers' perspectives on QALYs for decision-making and resource allocation (0049) | |||
| Elena Papadakis, MA, British Columbia Cancer Agency, British Columbia, Canada | Slides | ||
| How two years of program budgeting and marginal analysis havehelped bring financial sustainability to a seniors' care organization (0004) | |||
| Francois Dionne, PhD candidate, MSc, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Slides | ||
| Evidence-based marginal analysis: a post-market study of the cost-effectiveness of bevacizumab as a first- and second-line treatment for advanced colorectal cancer (0052) | |||
| Lindsay Hedden, PhD candidate, MSc, BSc, National Centre for Health Economics, Services, Policy and Ethics, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Slides | ||
| Theoretical and Ethical Aspects of Priority Setting | |||
| Priority and personal responsibility (0039) | |||
| Berit Bringedal, PhD, The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo, Norway | Slides | ||
| Why the notion of ‘responsibility for one's health' fails to direct priority setting in Swedish health care (0047) | |||
| Werner Schirmer, PhD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden | Slides | ||
| Dimitris Michailakis, Professor, University College of Gefle, Gefle, Sweden | |||
| Does policy design matter when handling distributive conflicts? (0063) | |||
| Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, PhD candidate, MA, The National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care, Sweden, Linköping, Sweden | |||
| Sunday | |||
| 9:00 | Practical Advances in Priority Setting | ||
| Resource allocation at Saint Joseph's Health Centre: evidence informed solutions in uncertain economic times (0005) | |||
| Francois Dionne, PhD candidate, MSc, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Slides | ||
| Multicriteria decision analyses for healthcare decisionmaking: feedback from the field on the value of the EVIDEM framework in Canadian and South African settings (0070) | |||
| Mireille Goetghebeur, PhD, BioMedCom Consultants, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Slides | ||
| The feasibility of using discrete choice experiment for setting priorities on HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand (0037) | |||
| Sitaporn Youngkong, PhD candidate, MSc, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand | |||
| Trading Off Criteria for Decision Making | |||
| What is the relative importance of cost-effectiveness information? Results from a discrete choice experiment among Swedish medical decision makers (0041) | |||
| Sandra Erntoft PhD, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Lund, Sweden | Slides | ||
| Health maximization vs. priority to the worse-off: empirical quantification of the trade-off and parameterization of welfare functions (0042) | |||
| Trygve Ottersen MD, PhD candidate, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway | Slides | ||
| Conjoint analysis - pretest for evaluation of therapy-related Attributes (0093 ) | |||
| Norman Wirsik MSc, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany | Slides | ||
| Stakeholder Perspectives | |||
| Stakeholder preferences in organ allocation: a conjoint measurement approach (0043) | |||
| Thorsten Ahrend PhD candidate, KfH, Centers for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Neu-Isenburg, Germany | Slides | ||
| Opportunities and challenges of priority-setting with cost- conscious guidelines: a qualitative study of stakeholder opinions in the German health care system (0067) | |||
| Georg Marckmann MD, MPH, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany | Slides | ||
| The usefulness of NICE guidance in practice: different perspectives of managers, clinicians and patients (0056) | |||
| Amanda Owen-Smith PhD, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Theoretical and Methodological Advances in Priority Setting | |||
| Commissioning in a cold climate: can prioritization really help? (0078) | |||
| Henrietta Ewart MA, MB, BS, DRCOG, FFPH, Solutions for Public Health, Oxford, United Kingdom | Slides | ||
| Allocation and the law - Considerations about prioritization, Constitution and liability: the German example (0081) | |||
| Bjoern Schmitz-Luhn Dipl. Jur., Ass.iur., RA, Institute for Medical Law, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany | |||
| Is there room for ethics as well as economics in the health care debate? (0008) | |||
| Lawrence J. Schneiderman MD, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, United States | |||
| 11:00 AM | Keynote Address | ||
| Effect of the economic recession on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals: Possible Response Options | |||
| Maureen Lewis PhD, Advisor, Development Economics Operations and Strategy, World Bank | Slides MP3 | ||