News and Events
All Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care event, Improving Palliative and End of Life Care in Secondary Care, Belfast, November 2019
Peter May delivered an invited talk on ‘Economic evidence for palliative care in Ireland
All Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care annual research symposium, Dublin, October 2019
Bridget M. Johnston delivered an invited talk on evidence for out-of-hours palliative care in Ireland.
Marie Curie/Scottish Government Expert Consultation on Future Palliative Care Need, Edinburgh, September 2019
Peter May delivered an invited talk on "Estimating future palliative care need in Ireland: a microsimulation approach"
International Health Economics Association research congress, Basel, July 2019
Bridget M. Johnston presented at a parallel session on outcome measurement in end-of-life care, evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Ireland.
International Health Economics Association research congress, Basel, July 2019
Peter May presented at a parallel session on palliative and end-of-life care: "Modelling treatment effect heterogeneity: a finite mixture model approach"
iHEA Webinar series, November 2018
Peter May presented work in progress on a new economic interpretation of high end-of-life care costs.
12th Annual Kathleen Foley Palliative Care Retreat, San Diego, October 2018
Peter May delivered an expert workshop on research skills in economic evaluation of palliative care.
9th Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Bern, May 2018
Charles Normand and Peter May delivered oral presentations and chaired sessions on economic evaluation in palliative care. J. Brian Cassel delivered an oral presentation on which May and Normand are co-authors.
iHEA Special Interest Group launched, April 2018
The International Health Economics Association (iHEA) has launched an Economics of Palliative and End-of-Life Care Special Interest Group to address both the priority policy questions and intriguing analytical challenges in this field. PaCE member Peter May is a co-convener of the group. We welcome all health economists and related researchers with a current or potential interest in this field to make contact, and particularly those with an interest in low- and middle-income countries.
Hospice UK Annual Conference, Liverpool, November, 2017
Peter May delivered a workshop on economics research methods in hospice and palliative care.
International Health Economics Association Congress, July 2017
Peter May delivered an oral presentation, ‘Economic Analysis of Palliative Care Consultation for Hospitalized Adults with Serious Illness: Systematic Differences in Cost-Effect According to Clinical Factors’.
Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 2017
Peter May delivered an oral presentation, ‘Economic Analysis of Palliative Care Consultation for Hospitalized Adults with Serious Illness: Systematic Differences in Cost-Effect According to Clinical Factors’.
15th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Madrid, May 2017
Peter May presented at a parallel session entitled ‘Palliative Care: Complexity, Economics and Health Policy’. Bridget Johnston presented a poster of a recent research project. PaCE members will attend an international expert meeting on “Using the QALY in palliative and end-of-life care”.