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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: PAEDIATRIC HEALTH ECONOMIC DATABASE EVALUATION PROJECT
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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THE PEDE PROJECT - A WEB SITE DEVOTED TO PAEDIATRIC HEALTH ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute is pleased to announce
the launch of a new Web site dedicated to paediatric health economic
evaluation.
The Paediatric Economic Database Evaluation (PEDE) project featured on the
Web site is part of a unique research program in paediatric health economic
methods developed by Dr. Wendy Ungar, scientist in Population Health
Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. The PEDE
project recognizes that there are unique challenges in applying standard
health economic methods to children.
The first of its kind, PEDE features a database containing detailed
information for over 1,000 published paediatric economic evaluations.
Publications of economic evaluations of treatments and services for
children have grown 10-fold since 1980, reflecting an increasing interest
in understanding how the costs of treatment are weighed against the health
benefits for informing allocation decisions.
The PEDE database is freely accessible on the Internet with a user-friendly
search engine. The full output includes detailed information about study
characteristics for each publication. This database is a valuable tool for
clinicians interested in a particular condition or treatment, for
scientists wishing to examine paediatric health services, and for health
economists and policy decision-makers desiring to learn more about the
economic benefits of particular treatments and services.
Research studies related to various phases of the PEDE project are
published in the current issues of Medical Care and Value in Health and a
forthcoming edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. A full technical
report is available online.
The Web site can be found at: <http://pede.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca/pede>.
Support for this research program comes from The Canadian Coordinating
Office for Health Technology Assessment and The Hospital for Sick Children
Research Institute and from in-kind support from the Institute of Health
Economics. Dr. Wendy J. Ungar is supported by a Canadian Institutes of
Health Research New Investigator Career Award.
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