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Study NCT ID: NCT00919152
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2023-10-06
First Post: 2009-06-10

Brief Title: Economic Outcomes of Enteral and Parenteral Proton Pump Inhibitor PPI Use in the Intensive Care Unit ICU
Sponsor: University of Nebraska
Organization: University of Nebraska

Study Overview

Official Title: Correlates of Economic Outcomes of Enteral and Parenteral PPI Use in the ICU and After Discharge
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2023-10
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: This study will be a retrospective electronic medical chart review of all patients admitted to adult intensive care medicine units ICU at The Nebraska Medical Center over a three-year period from January 2006 through December 2008 The study will have three primary aims

Aim 1 Determine correlates qualifying criteria of patients initiated on enteral versus parenteral PPIs as first choice in ICU and after discharge from ICU
Aim 2 Based on correlates determine number of patients receiving parenteral PPIs that could receive enteral therapy as first choice in ICU and after discharge from ICU
Aim 3 Estimate the potential savings in drug costs associated with conversion of eligible patients from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy with emphasis on lansoprazole solutab in the ICU and conversion of eligible patients requiring continued AST from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy after discharge from ICU
Detailed Description: BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE

Detail Proton pump inhibitors PPIs are commonly used in intensive care unit ICU patients for various clinical conditions including acute stress related gastrointestinal bleeding ASRGIB and clinically significant upper gastrointestinal bleeding UGIB Although randomized prospective clinical trials are limited with PPIs and other agents that suppress gastric acid the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO requires patients receive acid-suppressive therapy on admission to any ICU Physicians and pharmacists tend to choose the parenteral route for PPI administration rather than the enteral route despite several potential advantages for administration into the gastrointestinal tract Factors supporting enteral PPI administration include the ease with which PPIs can be formulated as a liquid suspension their high bioavailability in healthy patients an efficacy that has been shown to be greater than intravenous histamine-2 receptor antagonists H2RA therapy and a low acquisition cost In fact studies completed in healthy patients demonstrate that enterally administered PPIs may lead to greater acid suppression than parenterally administered PPIs on a mg-for-mg basis A potential limitation associated with the use of the gut to administer medication to the critically ill patient relates to whether the drug will be adequately absorbed We have repeatedly showed at our institution 650 bed teaching hospital with 54 ICU beds that seriously ill patients adequately absorbed enterally administered PPIs and provide equal or superior acid suppression profiles when compared to equivalent doses of PPIs administered parenterally Limited information is available on the utilization trends and associated potential cost savings with the use of enteral therapy compared with parenteral PPI administration in the ICU setting Lansoprazole oral solutab use in the ICU and hospital setting may lead to further cost savings by reducing the lengthy preparation ease in administration compared with enterally administered PPIs like omeprazole pantoprazole and esomeprazole Therefore to inform formulary decisions and cost-effective quality of care we propose a real-world retrospective study of the correlates of and economic outcomes in terms of potential savings in drug costs with use of enteral PPI including lansoprazole solutab compared with parenteral PPI use in and out of the ICU

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Overview Study Design This study will be a retrospective electronic medical chart review of all patients admitted to adult intensive care medicine units ICU at The Nebraska Medical Center over a three-year period from January 2006 through December 2008

Following investigational review board IRB approval a computerized list of all patients admitted to the ICU over the designated period will be generated Using laboratory personal all patients will be reviewed and data recorded into an access data base Data will be collected in our outcomes laboratory which is a 400 square feet room housing 5 computers equipped with related software and connected to PHAMIS the hospital electronic medical record of our institution

Subjects Inclusion CriteriaAll patients greater than 18 years admitted to the ICU during 2006-2008 January 2006 through December 2008 3-year period Exclusion Criteria Patients ineligible to receive a PPI eg hypersensitivity to any PPI Sample size We average 2500 eligible patients per year admitted to the ICU So we anticipate a final sample size of nearly 5000 patients which would give us a meaningful indication of real-world use and cost estimates

Procedures Data Collection All data will be collected into an access file database for ease of analysis Demographic data collected will include APACHE II score age gender underlying illness ICU admission diagnosis and gut function enteral and parenteral nutrition including tubes in place In addition length of hospital ICU stay and death during hospitalization will be recorded We will also record the type route duration and dose of acid-suppressive therapy before during and after ICU admission and details of all medications administered during the ICU stayTo aid in drug cost calculations PPI associated preparation and administration time will also be recorded by observation of 30 ICU admissions each for enteral and parenteral PPI group Drug costs will be based on 2008 Red book average wholesale price of drugs and resource utilization costs will be based on hospital billing data

Data analysis and Interpretation Descriptive Summary We will report descriptive statistics in terms of proportions of enteral and parenteral PPI use dose and duration in ICU and after discharge from ICU We will also report patient disease and resource utilization continuous measures of PPI dose and duration and PPI associated preparation and administration time length of stay LOS in ICU out of ICU and hospital characteristics by the two PPI groups enteral including Lansoprazole solutab versus parenteral Further using micro-costing procedures we will estimate economic outcomes ie costs in dollars associated with drug resource utilization PPI dose and duration and PPI associated preparation and administration time for the two groups Savings in drug costs will be also be computed in dollars by calculating difference between parenteral and enteral PPI groups Death during hospitalization will also be reported

Analyses for primary aims will be as follows - Aim 1 The proportion of PPI patients initiated on parenteral PPI and enteral PPI will be compared for statistically significant differences on ICU patient and disease characteristics using suitable chi-square or Fischers exact tests The use of the two PPI groups may be confounded by patient and disease characteristics To adjust for these confounding factors multivariate regression modeling will be used We will carry out multivariate logistic regression modeling to compare the odds of enteral versus parenteral PPI use Aim 2 Number of patients mean - SD initiated on parenteral PPIs that could receive enteral therapy as first choice in ICU and after discharge from ICU will be estimated Aim 3 Savings in drug costs associated with conversion of eligible patients from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy in the ICU and conversion of eligible patients requiring continued AST from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy after discharge from ICU will be reported as mean for normal distribution or median for skewed distribution

Analyses for secondary aims will be as follows - For the secondary aim 1 we will compare the proportion of patients initiated on enteral and parenteral PPIs using chi-square or fishers exact test For the secondary aims 2 and 3 we will compare the mean or median for resource and economic outcome variables between the two PPI groups using an independent sample t-test or a Wilcoxon rank sum test for skewed distributions respectively

Study Oversight

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Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
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