Safety of Oral Anticoagulants Registry

NCT ID: NCT02745054

Last Updated: 2018-05-22

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

1500 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-08-31

Study Completion Date

2018-10-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of SOAR is to characterize the clinical and economic impact of clinicians' responses to major bleeding complications and pre-procedural concerns for bleeding risk in patients treated with oral anticoagulants (warfarin, anti-Xa orals, and anti-thrombin (IIa) orals) who present to the ED or in the hospital with acute illness or injury, with the eventual aim of informing the development of improved approaches to the management of OACs in the ED.

Detailed Description

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Purpose and Rationale:

Until recently, warfarin was the only oral anticoagulant (OAC) available in the US, and a substantial infrastructure has developed around its management. Over the past five years, four non-Vitamin-K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOAC) have been approved by the FDA. The NOACs are associated with generally fewer and less severe bleeding complications, and shorter half-lives, often making management of bleeding that complicates the use of these agents less problematic than similar episodes associated with warfarin. Bleeding during NOAC therapy does occur, and patients taking NOACs sometimes require procedures that cannot be delayed, for which good hemostasis is desirable, and therefore the NOAC may delay or complicate care. The challenge of this latter issue is compounded by the lack of readily available, rapid-turnaround quantitative assays for measuring the magnitude of anticoagulation effect associated with NOAC use. From a safety perspective, the large warfarin infrastructure does not translate into useful support for use of the new NOACs; their anticoagulation impact cannot be readily monitored by simple, quick tests.

In October 2015 the first specific reversal agent for a NOAC was approved, but it is useful only for dabigatran; at present, there is no specific reversal agent for anti-Xa NOACs. Emergency care providers face many concerns and insecurities regarding the safety of warfarin and the NOACs, while working in a highly pressurized care environment, often with limited patient history and little time to consider treatment options.

Because of the unique position of the hospital ED in the US healthcare continuum, it is frequently the initial site of care for patients on OACs who develop bleeding complications. In all clinical settings, there tends to be a standardized, international normalized ratio (INR)-driven pathway for the management of warfarin-related bleeds. Many EDs and hospital pharmacies are now trying to establish similarly standardized, though not evidence-driven, pathways for NOAC-related bleeding, and eagerly await the availability of additional specific reversal agents to use in such patients.

The ED represents the key sentinel surveillance point for assessing the clinical and economic impact of bleeding concerns and complications attributable to OAC therapy. Other bleeding issues that impact the pace and nature of medical and surgical care occur in the inpatient setting, especially the ICU and surgical suite. Taken together, the hospital setting (ED plus inpatient) offers a 360-degree view of the scope, significance, and cost of OAC-related bleeds and bleeding concerns.

This registry is proposed as a large, prospective, multicenter study that identifies the clinical and economic impact of safety concerns around OAC use on evaluation and management strategies in the ED and on the inpatient units of participating hospitals. The eventual aim will be to use these data to inform the gradual development of a new, protocolized safety standard in the management of OACs in the ED.

Conditions

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Blood Coagulation

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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mgt of bleeding concerns/complications of oral anticoagulants

observational study of clincians' management of patients taking oral anticoagulants and having acute significant bleeding or requiring management of bleeding risk before an emergent procedure; observation limited to index hospitalization only

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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anticoagulation emergency management anticoagulation emergency reversal

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Bleeding requiring intervention - patients must be taking an OAC and meet at least one of the following criteria:

* Acute bleeding that is potentially life-threatening at presentation
* Acute bleeding associated with a fall in hemoglobin level by ≥2 g/dL
* Acute bleeding associated with a hemoglobin level of ≤8 g/dL if no baseline hemoglobin is available
* Acute symptomatic bleeding in a critical area or organ
* Any intracranial bleeding
* Bleeding for which more than 8 hours of direct patient monitoring is required prior to ED disposition
* Bleeding for which intravenous (IV) Vitamin K, fresh frozen plasma (FFP), any prothrombin complex concentrates (PCC) or activated PCC (aPCC), any specific factor replacement or reversal agent, or a parenteral hemostatic agent such as tranexamic acid is administered
* Bleeding for which packed red blood cells (PRBCs) or platelets are transfused
2. Bleeding Concern - patients must be taking an OAC and who, without overt bleeding, meet at least one of the following criteria:

* Diagnostic or therapeutic surgical procedure for which hemostasis is desirable (e.g., emergency laparotomy) and which, in the opinion of the treating physician, cannot be postponed at least 8 hours
* Diagnostic or therapeutic percutaneous procedure for which hemostasis is desirable (e.g., lumbar puncture) and which, in the opinion of the treating physician, cannot be postponed at least 8 hours
* Overdose (deliberate or accidental) of one or more OAC agents that, in the opinion of the treating physician, requires the administration of Vitamin K, FFP, any PCC or aPCC, any specific factor replacement or specific reversal agent, or a parenteral hemostatic agent such as tranexamic acid, with the desire of immediate reversal of anticoagulation
* Bleeding concern for which, in the opinion of the treating physician, more than 8 hours of direct patient monitoring is required prior to ED disposition

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who meet any of the following criteria are not eligible for inclusion in this registry study:

* Those who have received an investigational reversal agent for an OAC during the index event (data on these patients will be collected as part the pertinent investigational study).If during the course of SOAR enrollment an investigational reversal agent is approved, and that agent is used outside a registration study, that subject is not excluded.
* Those who have received treatment for a bleed or bleeding concern at another facility immediately prior to being transferred to the enrolling facility.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Boehringer Ingelheim

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Daiichi Sankyo

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

CSL Behring

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Portola Pharmaceuticals

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hospital Quality Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Charles V Pollack, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Hospital Quality Foundation

Locations

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Hartford Hospital

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Henry Ford Hospital

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Beaumont Hospital

Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Washington University

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Kings County Hospital

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Genesis HealthCare

Zanesville, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Reading Hospital

West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Charles V Pollack, MD

Role: CONTACT

Alex Frost

Role: CONTACT

Facility Contacts

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Henry Wang, MD

Role: primary

Craig Coleman, PharmD

Role: primary

Richard Nowak, MD

Role: primary

Carol Clark, MD

Role: primary

Douglas Char, MD

Role: primary

Richard Sinert, DO

Role: primary

Sharon Mace, MD

Role: primary

James Neuenschwander, MD

Role: primary

Adam Sigal, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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HQF-2016-SOAR-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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