Symposium & inaugural lecture ‘Choosing Carefully’

It is made clear that at least four theoretical and methodological challenges must be overcome in order to achieve this. First, predicting patient choice behaviour. This could prevent sub-optimal policy decisions, trial-and-error implementations and supply-and-demand imbalances. Second, validly and reliably measuring patient preferences. This would allow care to be better tailored to the needs of the patient and thus prevent non-compliance with health interventions and waste in health care. Third, measuring all the benefits of a health intervention. This could prevent incomplete economic evaluations in health care. Fourth, developing a Full Health Technology Assessment framework. This framework would allow a fair and transparent distribution of scarce resources between the different health domains (prevention, cure and care). Namely, this framework takes into account all costs and all benefits of health interventions, in which explicit attention is paid to patient preferences. Solving these four challenges through sound scientific research clears the way to realise optimal decisions in health care for both patients and society.

Symposium

‘Patient preferences in healthcare decision-making: from theory to practice’ 
11.30-15.10 hours

The program of the English symposium chaired by prof.dr. Maureen Rutten-van Mölken (ESHPM) is:
11.30-12.30 hours: lunch
12:30-12:35 hours: welcome by prof.dr. Maureen Rutten-van Mölken (ESHPM; moderator)
12:35-13:05 hours: presentation I: 'Patient preferences and appropriate care' by prof.dr. Diana Delnoij (ZiN)
13:05-13:35 hours: presentation II: 'The patient voice in drug regulation, a European regulator’s perspective on patient preference studies' by prof.dr. Peter Mol (CBG/UMCG)
13:35-13:55 hours: coffee break
13:55-14:25 hours: presentation III: 'Comparing preference elicitation methods for their use in decision-making during the medical product lifecycle' by dr. Jorien Veldwijk (ESHPM)
14:25-14:55 hours: presentation IV: 'Self-interest, positional concerns and distributional considerations in healthcare preferences' by prof.dr.ir Caspar Chorus (TUD)
14:55-15:10 hours: closing words by prof.dr. Maureen Rutten-van Mölken (ESHPM; moderator)

It's also possible to attend the symposium online. Follow our livestream here.

Inaugural lecture

In addition, prof. Esther de Bekker-Grob  will give her inaugural lecture ‘Choosing Carefully’ to accept the new Chair in ‘Health Economics & Health Preferences’. The ceremony will start promptly at 16:00 hours in the Aula, Erasmus building at campus Woudestein.

Click here to follow the livestream of the inaugural lecture.

Prof. Esther de Bekker-Grob

Prof. Esther de Bekker-Grob (1978) is professor of Health Economics & Health Preferences at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She graduated in health sciences from Maastricht University in 2005. She subsequently joined Erasmus MC in 2016 as a PhD student, postdoc and assistant professor. In the meantime, she obtained her PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009 with the dissertation 'Discrete choice experiments in health care: theory and applications'. She has been working at ESHPM since 2016, first as an associate professor and more recently as a full professor with a focus on health economics and health preferences. She is also director of the interfaculty Erasmus Choice Modeling Centre (www.eur.nl/ecmc) and director of the International Academy of Health Preference Research (www.iahpr.org). She is also a Veni and Vidi laureate of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).