Wendy J Ungar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2396944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wendy J Ungar |
| NOMBRES | Wendy J |
| APELLIDO | Ungar |
| FIRMA | UNGAR W J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0762-0101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Impacts beyond the child
A comparison of the Child Health Utility 9D and the Health Utilities Index for estimating health utilities in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
CHU9D and HUI discriminated between levels of disease activity in CD and UC regardless of the clinical scale used, with the CHU9D youth tariff most often displaying the lowest utilities for worse health states. Distinct utilities for different IBD disease activity states can be used in health state transition models evaluating the cost-effectiveness of treatments for pediatric CD and UC
Middle‐childhood executive functioning mediates associations between early‐childhood autism symptoms and adolescent mental health, academic and functional outcomes in autistic children
BACKGROUND: Executive functioning (EF) varies in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is associated with clinical symptoms, academic, and adaptive functioning. Here, we examined whether middle-childhood EF mediates associations between early-childhood autism symptoms and adolescent outcomes in children with ASD. METHODS: The Pathways in ASD Cohort comprising children recruited at the time of ASD diagnosis (at 2-4 years-of-age) and fol…
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism
BACKGROUND: Language regression, broadly defined as the loss of acquired language skills in early childhood, is a distinctive feature of autism. Little is known about the factors underlying regression or the prognosis of children who exhibit regression. We examine potential predictors of language regression and test its association with language development in a prospective longitudinal sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from …
Economic evaluations of vision screening to detect amblyopia and refractive errors in children
The Moral Foundations of Child Health and Social Policies
Foundational understanding of the moral language and dominant policy frames applied to children can enrich analyses of social policies for children. Most societies paint children as potent, vulnerable, entitled, and embedded. It is the admixture of these elements in particular policy spheres, across distinct places and times, that often determines the form of a given policy and societal reactions to it. Subsequent work in this area will need to d…
An Assessment of the Validity and Reliability of the Pediatric Child Health Utility 9D in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Health utilities relevant to children are lacking, compromising health funding and policy decisions for children. The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) is a recently developed preference-based health utility instrument designed for use in children. The objective was to examine the validity of the CHU9D in a cohort of 285 Canadian children aged 6.5 to 18 years of age with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), (collectively inflammatory b…
Does moral reasoning influence public values for health care priority setting
The problem is small enough, the problem is big enough’
Current approaches to health technology assessment are not well calibrated to the realities of child health and illness. Our study presents a nuanced and contextually grounded analysis of concepts instrumental to drug funding decisions for children. The insights generated are directly applicable to the Canadian and Ontario contexts, but also yield fundamental knowledge about HTA for children that are germane to drug policy in other health systems
Health-related quality of life in neonates and infants
Determining accurate costs for genomic sequencing technologies—a necessary prerequisite
Assessing care-giving demands, resources and costs of family/friend caregivers for persons with mental health disorders
As mental health (MH) care has shifted from institutional settings to the community, families and friends are responsible for providing the majority of the care at home. The substantial literature on the adverse effects experienced by caregivers has focused mainly on psychological morbidity. Less attention has been paid to how caregivers for persons with MH disorders interact with larger social systems and the impacts of factors such as financial…
Genetic Testing among Children in a Complex Care Program
Little is known about the pattern of genetic testing and frequency of genetic diagnoses among children enrolled in structured complex care programs (CCPs). Such information may inform the suitability of emerging genome diagnostics for this population. The objectives were to describe the proportion of children with undiagnosed genetic conditions despite genetic testing and measure the testing period, types and costs of genetic tests used. A retros…
Characteristics and quality of pediatric cost-utility analyses
An assessment of inter-rater agreement of the literature filtering process in the development of evidence-based dietary guidelines
Objective To determine whether the literature filtering process, a vital initial component of a systematic literature review, could be successfully completed by nutrition professionals or non-professionals. Design Using a diet–disease relationship as the guideline topic, inter-rater agreement for the title and abstract filtering processes between and among professionals and non-professionals was assessed and compared with an expert reference stan…
A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma
The Pediatric Economic Database Evaluation (Pede) Project
BACKGROUND: While standard methods for conducting economic evaluations have evolved, little attention has been paid to the conduct of these studies in special populations such as children. OBJECTIVES: To build a database of pediatric economic evaluations and to examine trends in publication characteristics over a 20-year period. RESEARCH DESIGN: The database was created through a multisource search strategy, manual review, application of inclusio…
Children in Need of Pharmacare
The Pediatric Economic Database Evaluation (Pede) Project
BACKGROUND: While standard methods for conducting economic evaluations have evolved, little attention has been paid to the conduct of these studies in special populations such as children. OBJECTIVES: To build a database of pediatric economic evaluations and to examine trends in publication characteristics over a 20-year period. RESEARCH DESIGN: The database was created through a multisource search strategy, manual review, application of inclusio…
Children in Need of Pharmacare
An assessment of inter-rater agreement of the literature filtering process in the development of evidence-based dietary guidelines
Objective To determine whether the literature filtering process, a vital initial component of a systematic literature review, could be successfully completed by nutrition professionals or non-professionals. Design Using a diet–disease relationship as the guideline topic, inter-rater agreement for the title and abstract filtering processes between and among professionals and non-professionals was assessed and compared with an expert reference stan…
A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma
Characteristics and quality of pediatric cost-utility analyses
Genetic Testing among Children in a Complex Care Program
Little is known about the pattern of genetic testing and frequency of genetic diagnoses among children enrolled in structured complex care programs (CCPs). Such information may inform the suitability of emerging genome diagnostics for this population. The objectives were to describe the proportion of children with undiagnosed genetic conditions despite genetic testing and measure the testing period, types and costs of genetic tests used. A retros…
Assessing care-giving demands, resources and costs of family/friend caregivers for persons with mental health disorders
As mental health (MH) care has shifted from institutional settings to the community, families and friends are responsible for providing the majority of the care at home. The substantial literature on the adverse effects experienced by caregivers has focused mainly on psychological morbidity. Less attention has been paid to how caregivers for persons with MH disorders interact with larger social systems and the impacts of factors such as financial…
Determining accurate costs for genomic sequencing technologies—a necessary prerequisite
Does moral reasoning influence public values for health care priority setting
The problem is small enough, the problem is big enough’
Current approaches to health technology assessment are not well calibrated to the realities of child health and illness. Our study presents a nuanced and contextually grounded analysis of concepts instrumental to drug funding decisions for children. The insights generated are directly applicable to the Canadian and Ontario contexts, but also yield fundamental knowledge about HTA for children that are germane to drug policy in other health systems
Health-related quality of life in neonates and infants
The Moral Foundations of Child Health and Social Policies
Foundational understanding of the moral language and dominant policy frames applied to children can enrich analyses of social policies for children. Most societies paint children as potent, vulnerable, entitled, and embedded. It is the admixture of these elements in particular policy spheres, across distinct places and times, that often determines the form of a given policy and societal reactions to it. Subsequent work in this area will need to d…
An Assessment of the Validity and Reliability of the Pediatric Child Health Utility 9D in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Health utilities relevant to children are lacking, compromising health funding and policy decisions for children. The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) is a recently developed preference-based health utility instrument designed for use in children. The objective was to examine the validity of the CHU9D in a cohort of 285 Canadian children aged 6.5 to 18 years of age with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), (collectively inflammatory b…
Middle‐childhood executive functioning mediates associations between early‐childhood autism symptoms and adolescent mental health, academic and functional outcomes in autistic children
BACKGROUND: Executive functioning (EF) varies in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is associated with clinical symptoms, academic, and adaptive functioning. Here, we examined whether middle-childhood EF mediates associations between early-childhood autism symptoms and adolescent outcomes in children with ASD. METHODS: The Pathways in ASD Cohort comprising children recruited at the time of ASD diagnosis (at 2-4 years-of-age) and fol…
Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism
BACKGROUND: Language regression, broadly defined as the loss of acquired language skills in early childhood, is a distinctive feature of autism. Little is known about the factors underlying regression or the prognosis of children who exhibit regression. We examine potential predictors of language regression and test its association with language development in a prospective longitudinal sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from …
Economic evaluations of vision screening to detect amblyopia and refractive errors in children
A comparison of the Child Health Utility 9D and the Health Utilities Index for estimating health utilities in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
CHU9D and HUI discriminated between levels of disease activity in CD and UC regardless of the clinical scale used, with the CHU9D youth tariff most often displaying the lowest utilities for worse health states. Distinct utilities for different IBD disease activity states can be used in health state transition models evaluating the cost-effectiveness of treatments for pediatric CD and UC
Impacts beyond the child
Medicine (12 obras) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (8 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Public health (6 obras) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras)