CADTH 2015 Symposium

1. New Methods in HTA
to Support Policy and Practice (session 1):
Can We Better Understand How
Canadians Value Health?
April 13th, 2015
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2. Objective:
• Start a discussion on new methods that can
help policy makers better understand the
consequences of their decisions, ultimately
improving the health of Canadians
• Topic 1: Values, and how they can be
integrated into decisions
• Topic 2: Conducting and presenting economic
evaluations (Session C2: 15:30 later today)
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3. Before we begin…
• Presentations will be made available on the
CADTH website or through the mobile app the
day after the session.
• An evaluation survey will be sent out after the
symposium and feedback on this session and
the whole event.
• Lunch will be served immediately following
the session on the Salon Level near the
Plenary Room.
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4. Speakers:
• Carlo Marra: Using Best Worst Scaling to elicit
values
• Nick Bansback: Using a discrete choice
experiment with duration to estimate values
for health states on the QALY scale
• Dean Regier: The medium is the message:
public engagement, value and bias
• Mike Paulden: Transforming the cost-
effectiveness threshold into a ‘value threshold’
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5. Questions
• Placing monetary values on human life and
suffering is anathema to those not trained in
economics.
• Does this, (together with the potential for hypothetical bias),
render willingness to pay obsolete/outdated?
• How should we account for value
considerations? Modify WTP or E (or neither)?
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