Authors' recommendations: A total of 2630 published pediatric health economic evaluations were identified through PEDE between 1980 and 2013, indicating that the field of pediatric economic evaluation continues to grow. Substantially more CEAs and CUAs are being published compared with CBAs and CMAs (64.5% and 24.0% versus 7.7% and 3.7%, respectively) and this trend appears consistent regardless of the type of intervention, disease or age group being studied. Since 2009 CUA has dominated as the most frequent type of analytic technique despite the significant challenges in valuing health states in children. Statistically significant changes in the distribution of analysis types. journal types, intervention types and age groups were observed when comparing early (1980-1999) and late (2000-2013) periods (X2 p<0.0001 for each test). The change in distribution of analysis types likely reflects the increase in CEAs and CUAs over time. The main focus of pediatric health economic evaluations has consistently remained infectious diseases at 29.2% with the next most frequently studied conditions being those of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium at 7.2%.

Project Status: Completed

Year Published: 2016

URL for published report: https://lab.research.sickkids.ca/task/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2018/06/2016-01-PEDE-Trends-2015-FULL-REPORT.pdf

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

Publication Type: Not Assigned

Country: Canada

Organisation Name: Technology Assessment at SickKids

Contact Address: Program of Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 tel: (416) 813-8519 fax: (416) 813-5979

Contact Name: wendy.ungar@sickkids.ca

Contact Email: wendy.ungar@sickkids.ca

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