NCT02922192

Incidence of Hospitalizations for Serious Infections in Patients Receiving Biologic Anti-Inflammatories for Rheumatologic, Psoriatic, and Gastrointestinal Conditions: A Descriptive Analysis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 90,360 (actual)
• Sponsor: Biologics & Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Purpose: With the existing biologic anti-inflammatory product patents expiring and the FDA approval of new biosimilar and innovator biologics, patients with rheumatologic (RA), psoriatic (PsO-PsA-AS), and gastrointestinal (GI) conditions will have additional therapeutic options. This observational study will describe the patient characteristics of new users of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF) antagonists, non-TNF- α antagonists, oral DMARD, and non-biologic agents. It will describe in the treatment cohorts outcomes of serious infections that require hospitalization. The BBCIC will use the findings from this descriptive analysis to design a comparative study evaluating the real-world effectiveness and safety of biosimilar and innovator anti-inflammatory biologics.

Detailed description

Additional information: To most effectively interpret results from this descriptive analysis it is important to consider that this protocol was not designed to support a hypothesis. This information is being provided to the public in the interest of transparency and for demonstrating the BBCIC's Distributed Research Network's (DRN) ability to define exposures, outcomes, covariates and confounders. When published, the report will caution that the protocol does not support any ability to compare safety or effectiveness but instead is to be used only to explore the feasibility of future, more detailed comparative analyses and to better understand the capabilities of the BBCIC project. Further, the report will caution that information from this protocol should not affect use of the medical products described in any way and the fact that the BBCIC is performing this descriptive analysis in no way suggests there is a safety or effectiveness issue with any of the products described.

Conditions

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic Arthritis
• Ankylosing Spondylitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	TNF-α antagonists, non-TNFs, DMARD non-biologics	Exposure to TNF- α antagonists, non-TNF- α antagonists, oral DMARD, or non-biologic agents.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-31
• Completion: 2020-06-01
• First posted: 2016-10-04
• Last updated: 2023-07-27