{"id":9,"date":"2017-04-24T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/task\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:57:15","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/task\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299695891{margin-top: -20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space]<div class=\"dt-fancy-separator title-left h3-size style-disabled accent-title-color\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dt-fancy-title\"><span class=\"separator-holder separator-left\"><\/span>Welcome to Technology Assessment at SickKids (TASK)<span class=\"separator-holder separator-right\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299787762{margin-top: -20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space]<div class=\"dt-fancy-separator title-left h3-size style-disabled accent-title-color\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dt-fancy-title\"><span class=\"separator-holder separator-left\"><\/span>Featured Publications<span class=\"separator-holder separator-right\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299858426{margin-top: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Technology Assessment at SickKids (TASK) was created in 2007 in response to the growing interest in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and health economic evaluation at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) from an institutional perspective, and from a researcher&#8217;s perspective.<\/h4>\n<h4>The technical reports produced by TASK assist hospital decision-makers, provincial decision-makers and users of HTA evidence around the globe in making challenging allocation decisions with regard to investments in health care technologies focused on child health.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>TASK activities include:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>HTA for decision support<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Research to improve and expand HTA methodology<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Training<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Partnership and linkages<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Knowledge transfer<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>TASK is a member of the Health Technology Analysis Exchange of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) and the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative. All technical reports are indexed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/database.inahta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">international HTA database<\/a>\u00a0managed by the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA).<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299870755{margin-top: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1775059032499{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;background-color: #f2f2f2 !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"PT\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lamsal R, Rahman L, Yeh EA, Pullenayegum E, Ungar WJ. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41797030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impacts beyond the child: A theoretical framework of pediatric economic evaluation from a family perspective<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/i>, 397:119096, 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ungar WJ, Wu V, Marshall CR, Hwang J, Hayeems RZ, Tsiplova K, Gillespie MK, Szuto A, Chisholm C, Stavropoulos DJ, Venkataramanan V, Xiao B, Costain G, Beaulieu Bergeron M, Sawyer S, Lau L, Huang L, Mendoza-Londono R, Somerville MJ, Boycott KM. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40852796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A microcosting and cost consequence analysis from a randomized controlled trial comparing genome sequencing with exome sequencing for genetic diagnosis<\/a><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">. <i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Genetics in Medicine<\/i>, 28(2):101561, 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Stevens Smith H, Buchanan J, Goranitis I, IJzerman MJ, Lavelle TA, Marshall DA, Regier DA, Ungar WJ, Weymann D, Wordsworth S, Phillips KA, Jansen JP<\/span>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40339643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis in genomic medicine: Considerations for addressing health equity.<\/a> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><em>Value in Health<\/em>, 28(8):1213-1220, 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/task\/publications\/\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-s dt-btn default-btn-color default-btn-hover-color default-btn-bg-color default-btn-bg-hover-color\" id=\"dt-btn-1\"><span>View All Publications<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299695891{margin-top: -20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299787762{margin-top: -20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523299858426{margin-top: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text] Technology Assessment at SickKids (TASK) was created in 2007 in response to the growing interest in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and health economic evaluation at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) from an institutional perspective, and from a researcher&#8217;s perspective. 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