Additional CHE seminar - The Economics and Psychology of End-of-life Care
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Event details
Abstract: This presentation will explore the primary economic and non-economic causes of the over-medicalisation of death and dying, presenting extensions of the author’s prior work from the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. It will explain why overtreatment is increasingly prevalent in both developed and developing countries but also why some groups are left behind. The presentation will then present an approach to improving the quality of care delivered to patients with advanced illnesses through introduction of a preference-based approach to measuring quality that can be tied to indicators that matter most to patients with a goal toward increased accountability.
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About the speaker
Professor Eric Finkelstein
Dr. Finkelstein is Professor of Economics at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore and the Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care. His research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of health behaviours. A major focus are studies to better understand the complicated decisions that revolve around end-of-life care. He has published over 300 manuscripts and 2 books in these areas. Based on Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 81 and his publications have been cited over 125,000 times, including in the landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the US Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). He was included in the list of the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics and among the Top 2% of scientists worldwide in a study by Stanford University in 2021.
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible