Medico-economic Evaluation of the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Anti-TNF-α Agents in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

NCT ID: NCT02508012

Last Updated: 2025-09-30

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

260 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-09-24

Study Completion Date

2020-01-01

Brief Summary

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Since their appearance more than a decade ago, anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors have demonstrated beneficial activity in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However, more than one-third of patients present primary resistance, and one more third become resistant over time. One of the main factors associated with loss of response is the immunogenicity of anti-TNF biologics leading to the production of antibodies targetting the TNF inhibitor, namely anti-drug antibodies (ADAbs), that accelerate drug elimination from the serum and decrease its therapeutic activity. In this study the investigators propose a medico-economic evaluation of the measurement of anti-TNF agents and anti-drug antibodies serum concentrations in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with anti-TNFalpha inhibitors. 280 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) will be included and randomized in 2 groups with or without drug and ADAbs monitoring. In the monitored group, in case of loss of response, the clinician will use biological informations to adapt the treatment following a simple treatment algorithm. In the unmonitored group, drug and ADAbs measurements will not be transmitted to the clinician. Clinical and economical benefits of the biological monitoring will be evaluated after a follow-up period of two years.

Detailed Description

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280 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) will be recruited in 13 french centers and randomized in 2 groups with or without drug and ADAbs monitoring.

Anti-TNF inhibitors and ADAbs will be simultaneously measured in the patients serum by ELISA (LisaTracker - Theradiag) at weeks 6 and 24, months 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24.

In the unmonitored group, drug and ADAbs measurements will not be transmitted to the clinician.

In the monitored group, in case of loss of response the clinician will use immunomonitoring data to adapt the treatment following a simple treatment algorithm:

* loss of response with therapeutic serum trough level of anti-TNF switch to another biologic
* loss of response with subtherapeutic serum trough level of anti-TNF but without detectable ADAbs increase doses and/or shorten interval between infusions
* loss of response with subtherapeutic serum trough level of anti-TNF and detectable ADAbs switch to another anti-TNF if inefficient switch to another biologic.

Clinical and economical benefits of the biological monitoring will be evaluated after a follow-up period of two years:

* primary outcome: Cost-utility analysis of the immunomonitoring strategy using incremental cost effectiveness ratio
* secondary outcome: Evaluation of the quality of life (IBDQ score)

Conditions

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Crohn's Disease Ulcerative Colitis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Immuno monitoring

in case of loss of response, the clinician uses immunomonitoring data to adapt the treatment following a treatment algorithm.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Immuno monitoring

Intervention Type OTHER

treatment optimization

No immuno monitoring

in case of loss of response, immunomonitoring data are not transmit to the clinician who adapts the treatment with classical biological informations.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Immuno monitoring

treatment optimization

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
* Treated with anti-TNF

Exclusion Criteria

* anti-TNF contraindication
* Previous treatment with anti-TNF
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Department of the medical information of Montpellier

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Montpellier

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Thierry VINCENT, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of immunology in Montpellier

Locations

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University hospital

Montpellier, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

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Other Identifiers

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9535

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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