期刊
VALUE IN HEALTH
卷 16, 期 6, 页码 1054-1062出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2013.05.008
关键词
effectiveness; new drugs; prospective monitoring; validity
资金
- Pfizer, Inc
Objectives: Clinicians and payers require rapid comparative effectiveness (CE) evidence generation to inform decisions for new drugs. We empirically assessed treatment dynamics of newly marked drugs and their implications for conducting CE research. Methods: We used claims data to evaluate five drug-outcome pairs: 1) raloxifene (vs. alendronate) and fracture; 2) risedronate (vs alendronate) and fracture; 3) simvastatin plus ezetimibe fixed-dose combination (simvastatin ezetimibe) (vs. simvastatin alone) and cardiovascular events; 4) rofecoxib (vs nonselective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [ns-NSAIDs]) and myocardial infarction; and 5) rofecoxib (vs ns-NSAIDS) and gastrointestinal bleed. We examined utilization dynamics in the early marketing period, including evolving utilization patterns, outcome risk among those treated with new versus established drugs, and prior treatment patterns that may indicate treatment resistance or intolerance. We addressed these challenges by replicating active CE monitoring with sequential matched cohort analysis. Results: Patients initiating new drugs were more likely to have used other drugs for the same indication in the past, but the majority of patients in all new drug cohorts were treatment naive (82.0% overall). Patients initiating rofecoxib had higher predicted baseline risk of gastrointestinal bleed than did patients initiating ns-NSAIDs. Patients initiating risedronate and alendronate had similar predicted baseline risks of fracture, while those initiating raloxifene and simvastatin ezetimibe had lower risks of outcomes of interest relative to their comparators. Prospective monitoring yielded results consistent with expectation for each example. Conclusions: Many challenges to assessing the CE of new drugs are borne out in empirical data. Attention to these challenges can yield valid CE results.
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