Comparative effectiveness of less commonly used systemic monotherapies and common combination therapies for moderate to severe psoriasis in the clinical setting.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2014
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of psoriasis therapies in real-world settings remains relatively unknown.
OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare the effectiveness of less commonly used systemic therapies and commonly used combination therapies for psoriasis.
METHODS: This was a multicenter cross-sectional study of 203 patients with plaque psoriasis receiving less common systemic monotherapy (acitretin, cyclosporine, or infliximab) or common combination therapies (adalimumab, etanercept, or infliximab and methotrexate) compared with 168 patients receiving methotrexate evaluated at 1 of 10 US outpatient dermatology sites participating in the Dermatology Clinical Effectiveness Research Network.
RESULTS: In adjusted analyses, patients on acitretin (relative response rate 2.01; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.18-3.41), infliximab (relative response rate 1.93; 95% CI 1.26-2.98), adalimumab and methotrexate (relative response rate 3.04; 95% CI 2.12-4.36), etanercept and methotrexate (relative response rate 2.22; 95% CI 1.25-3.94), and infliximab and methotrexate (relative response rate 1.72; 95% CI 1.10-2.70) were more likely to have clear or almost clear skin compared with patients on methotrexate. There were no differences among treatments when response rate was defined by health-related quality of life.
LIMITATIONS: Single time point assessment may result in overestimation of effectiveness.
CONCLUSIONS: The efficacy of therapies in clinical trials may overestimate their effectiveness as used in clinical practice. Although physician-reported relative response rates were different among therapies, absolute differences were small and did not correspond to differences in patient-reported outcomes.
Recommended Citation
Takeshita, Junko; Wang, Shuwei; Shin, Daniel B; Callis Duffin, Kristina; Krueger, Gerald G; Kalb, Robert E; Weisman, Jamie D; Sperber, Brian R; Stierstorfer, Michael B; Brod, Bruce A; Schleicher, Stephen M; Robertson, Andrew D; Linn, Kristin A; Shinohara, Russell T; Troxel, Andrea B; Van Voorhees, Abby S; and Gelfand, Joel M, "Comparative effectiveness of less commonly used systemic monotherapies and common combination therapies for moderate to severe psoriasis in the clinical setting." (2014). Department of Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 143.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medfp/143
PubMed ID
25260564
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It was published in: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Volume 71, Issue 6, 1 December 2014, Pages 1167-1175.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2014.08.003
Copyright © 2014 American Academy of Dermatology, Inc.