"Healing with Dollars and Sense: The Ethics of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Decision Making"

9-10 DECEMBER 2004

Workshop Hosted by: The Defining the Medicare Basket Research Project Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Supported By: Health Canada and the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto


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Presentations

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Priority Setting: Beyond Evidence-based Medicine and Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Professor Douglas Martin, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto

Some Practical Ethics in Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care Decision Making: Reflections from the Experience of NICE
Dr. Anthony Culyer, Chief Scientist, Institute for Work & Health, Toronto

Some Key Ethical Problems in Using Cost Effectiveness Analysis for Health Care Coverage Decisions
Professor Dan W. Brock, Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University

Preference Measurement in CEA: Are we capturing values or creating them?
Professor Peter Ubel, Director, Program for Improving Health Care Decisions, Ann Arbor VAMC and Univ. of Michigan

The 'QALY Trap': Can Rationally Maximizing Health Benefit be Reconciled with Principles of Non-Discrimination
Professor Paul Menzel, Professor of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University

Fair Process and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Professor Norman Daniels, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, Department of Population and International Health Harvard University

Deciding about the Universal Benefits Package
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health