K50 K51
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
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
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT. 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| • Administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the patient. • Differences in administration of steroids within the last 12 months as reported by the patient and by the physician. • Administration of steroids for more than 50% of the last 12 months as reported by the patient. • Prescription of a bone protection medication as reported by the physician via the SAT. • 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. • Number of oral steroid courses received by patients within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT. • Duration of steroid treatment received by the patients within the last 12 months as reported by the physician via the SAT. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & CO. KG