Study type

Study topic

Human medicinal product

Study type

Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Disease epidemiology
Effectiveness study (incl. comparative)
Safety study (incl. comparative)
Non-interventional study

Non-interventional study design

Cohort
Study drug and medical condition

Study drug International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name

VEDOLIZUMAB

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) code

(L04AA33) vedolizumab
vedolizumab

Medical condition to be studied

Colitis ulcerative
Population studied

Age groups

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

70
Study design details

Main study objective

The primary objective of the study is to assess relapse rate in patients who completed DP with response or remission for UC within Week 26 after biological treatment cessation with infliximab or vedolizumab.

Outcomes

The primary outcome will assess relapse rate after 26 weeks of treatment cessation understood as: any colectomy due to UC, any hospitalization, new course of biological treatment, new course of steroids, necessity to increase a dose of steroids, and new course of an immunomodulator (IMM) (such as azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine, methotrexate, ciclosporin or tofacitinib) due to exacerbation of UC. Relapse rate in patients who completed DP with response/remission for UC with response within Weeks 52, 78, 104 after treatment cessation with infliximab/vedolizumab, necessity for steroid and biological treatment within Weeks 26, 52, 78, and 104, effectiveness in induction and maintenance therapy, use of steroids/IMM and real life safety biological treatment in patients with UC in DP.

Data analysis plan

Standard descriptive statistic methods will be used which comprise the number of patients, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum, median and maximum. For categorical variables tables of frequencies (absolute and relative frequencies) will be presented. Relapse rates and response rates will be presented with 95 percent (%) confidence intervals. For exploratory analyses of factors influencing response and remission durability groups of patients with relapse reported on each follow-up visit will be compared. In addition, mixed effects models will be performed taking these factors into consideration. The safety endpoints will be presented as incidence rate calculated using person-time analyses.
Documents
Study results
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