Study type

Study topic

DiseaseĀ /health condition

Study topic, other

Atopic dermatitis

Study type

Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Assessment of risk minimisation measure implementation or effectiveness
Effectiveness study (incl. comparative)

Data collection methods

Primary data collection
Non-interventional study

Non-interventional study design

Cohort
Study drug and medical condition

Name of medicine

ADTRALZA
CIBINQO
DUPIXENT
OLUMIANT
RINVOQ

Name of medicine, other

methotrexate, cyclosporine, azathioprine

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) code

(D11AH05) dupilumab
dupilumab
(L04A) IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS
IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS

Medical condition to be studied

Dermatitis atopic
Population studied

Age groups

Children (2 to < 12 years)
Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)
Adults (18 to < 46 years)
Adults (46 to < 65 years)
Adults (65 to < 75 years)
Adults (75 to < 85 years)
Adults (85 years and over)

Estimated number of subjects

2000
Study design details

Study design

Inception cohort of patients receiving systemic therapy for atopic dermatitis.

Main study objective

The main objectives are:1. To assess short and long-term safety of systemic therapies (including phototherapy) for atopic eczema (pharmacovigilance).2. To assess short and long-term effectiveness of systemic therapies, providing a basis for shared decision making and guidelines.

Setting

Dermatology departments in Spain.

Outcomes

Treatment safety (pharmacovigilance): we will still be able to conduct a meaningful descriptive analysis of more common AEs and SAEs collected over an at least one-year period for each treatment modality.Treatment effectiveness: Effectiveness of the study medications will be assessed using objective measures (EASI) and patient-reported outcomes (POEMS).

Data analysis plan

The initial analyses will consist of comparisons in baseline status between the individuals in the treatment cohorts. For the purposes of analysis follow-up time will be start with enter in the cohort or first dose of a drug and will end at the earliest of the following: exiting the register, loss to follow-up, enter in a clinical trial, death or end of study period. Incidence rates for patients initiating new treatments and initiating other conventional systemic therapies will be estimated crude and stratified by confounding factors. Then time-dependent regression analyses will be undertaken to compare event rates between groups, using standard multivariable analyses to reduce confounding. We will use other statistical techniques, including propensity score matching, to accommodate confounding by indication. As children and adolescents may have a different phenotype of AE compared to adults and may respond differently to systemic therapy, we will explore this by stratifying groups.