{"id":3210,"date":"2025-10-17T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/task\/?page_id=3210"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:19:18","slug":"pede-about-the-research-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/task\/pede-about-the-research-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PEDE: About the Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Examines key\u00a0trends\u00a0in publication of child health economic evaluations<\/li>\n
  2. Evaluates the quality of published pediatric economic evaluations to reveal methodological limitations of existing approaches<\/li>\n
  3. Examines challenges and novel methods for health state valuation and measurement for cost-utility analysis.<\/li>\n
  4. Developed and validated a 57-item instrument for the quality appraisal of pediatric economic evaluations: the\u00a0Pediatric Quality Appraisal Questionnaire (PQAQ)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Full details of the PEDE Project and results of all developmental phases are included in a\u00a0PEDE Development Technical Report<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3483″ img_size=”large” css=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]