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DICE Incidence Capture 2.0: Determinants, Incidence, and consequences of Corticosteroid Excess in IBD in Germany

Recruiting
Conditions
K50
K51
Crohn disease [regional enteritis]
Ulcerative colitis
Registration Number
DRKS00033064
Lead Sponsor
AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
375
Inclusion Criteria

•Patients diagnosed with IBD >1 year
•Patient attending IBD clinic visit (or clinical assessments performed by phone/web, where applicable)
•Signed patient consent
•Available medical chart documentation over the last 12 months

Exclusion Criteria

•Post-colectomy UC patients with disease limited to the colon
•Patients <19 years old
•Patients that are currently receiving or have received investigational products and enrolled in clinical studies during the last 12 months
•Any of the following conditions:
-Solid organ transplantation (any)
-Adrenal insufficiency/Addison’s disease/hypopituitarism,
-Autoimmune hepatitis
-Polymyalgia rheumatica
-Uveitis
-Systemic lupus erythematosus
-Rheumatoid arthritis
-Giant cell arteritis
-Vasculitis (various subtypes/pseudonyms)
- haemolytic anaemia

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT.<br>Fulfilment of 1 or more criteria defining steroid dependency and/or steroid use contravening official guidelines as reported by the physician ((i) the prescription of >1 steroid course or (ii) inability to wean steroids below 10 mg/day prednisolone or 3 mg/day budesonide within 3 months of starting steroids or (iii) disease flare within 3 months of stopping steroids).
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
•Administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the patient.<br>•Differences in administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the patient and by the physician.<br>•Administration of steroids for more than 50% of the last 12 months as reported by the patient.<br>•Prescription of a bone protection medication as reported by the physician via the SAT.<br>•Treatment with a biologic or a small molecule alongside administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT.<br>•Number of oral steroid courses received by patients within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT.<br>•Duration of steroid treatment received by the patients within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT.
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