“When do financial incentives in health care do more good than harm?”
10 March 2011
Financial incentives have become common in health care. But when are they effective? And when are they a better option than other means of behaviour change? Any change must also be balanced against the several potential downsides, such as misdirection of clinicians' attention, demotivation, gaming, and conflicts with the interests of patients. It is essential for both policy makers and clinicians to understand in what circumstances and in what format financial incentives do more good than harm. Furthermore, getting the right measure, the right type of incentive, to the right person, is crucial to implementation. This conference aims at presenting an overview of the evidence for effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of financial incentives in different circumstances, and their unintended consequences. From this, we will develop a "checklist" to aid decision making about whether and how to use a financial incentive.
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Tony Scott - ARC Future Fellow and Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
- Associate Professor Ian Scott - General physician and director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Professor Paul Glasziou - Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University
- Professor Jenny Doust - Professor of Public health at Bond University
- Dr Heather Buchan - Public health physician with a particular interest in improving health care quality
- Professor Mark Harris - Foundation Professor of General Practice and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at UNSW
- Professor Phillip Davies - Professor of Health Systems and Policy in the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland
- Alexis Stockwell - Doctorate of Health Science (QUT), the role of financial incentives in health care
- Associate Professor Rosemay Knight - Principal Adviser on Chronic Diseases, Dept. of Health and Ageing
Program
Cost
$110 per person, including GST
When
10 March 2011
9am Registration, coffee on arrival
9:30am Start
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4:30pm
Where
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
The Princeton Room, Bond University
Please see map for parking and venue details
Contact Information
Chrissy Erueti
Centre Manager
Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice (CREBP)
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Telephone: +61 7 5595 4482
Fax: +61 7 5595 1271
Email: cerueti@bond.edu.au
