The PEDE Project was conceived as part of a research program in pediatric health economic methods. In addition to maintaining the comprehensive database of economic evaluations in child health, the PEDE Project:

  1. Examines key trends in publication of child health economic evaluations
  2. Evaluates the quality of published pediatric economic evaluations to reveal methodological limitations of existing approaches
  3. Examines challenges and novel methods for health state valuation and measurement for cost-utility analysis.
  4. Developed and validated a 57-item instrument for the quality appraisal of pediatric economic evaluations: the Pediatric Quality Appraisal Questionnaire (PQAQ)

Full details of the PEDE Project and results of all developmental phases are included in a PEDE Development Technical Report

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