| Autor: |
Orlando, A., Macaluso, F., Fries, W., Privitera, A., Cappello, M., Siringo, S., Inserra, G., Magnano, A., Di Mitri, R., Belluardo, N., Scarpulla, G., Magrì, G., Trovatello, A., Carroccio, A., Genova, S., Bertolami, C., Vassallo, R., Romano, C., Pellegrino, S., Citrano, M., Accomando, S., Ventimiglia, M., Renna, S., Orlando, R., Rizzuto, G., Vinci, E., Cottone, M. |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Orlando A., Macaluso F.S., Fries W., Privitera A.C., Cappello M., Siringo S., Inserra G., Magnano A., Di Mitri R., Belluardo N., Scarpulla G., Magrì G., Trovatello A., Carroccio A., Genova S., Bertolami C., Vassallo R., Romano C., Pellegrino S., Citrano M., Accomando S., Ventimiglia M., Renna S., Orlando R., Rizzuto G., Vinci E., Cottone M. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Popis: |
Introduction: The monitoring of appropriateness, costs, and clinical outcomes of biological therapy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a relevant need. Aims & Methods: We aimed to evaluate all these issues in Sicily through a webbased network of all prescribing centers. The Sicilian Network for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SN-IBD) is composed by a super Hub coordinator centre and five Hub plus ten Spoke centres. From January 2013, all IBD patients starting a biological agent (incident cases) or already on treatment (prevalent cases) were entered in a web based software. Herein we report data of incident cases about the efficacy of biological therapy after twelve weeks and one year of treatment. As clinical end-point, we set remission (corresponding to a Mayo Partial Score 52 for UC, and to a Harvey-Bradshaw Index 55 for CD), and response (reduction of Harvey-Bradshaw Index |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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