PANGAEA 2.0- STATE OF THE ART MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENT MANAGEMENT IN DAILY CLINICAL PRACTICE. A NEW 3-YEAR OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF PATIENTS RECEIVING FINGOLIMOD
Author(s)
Ziemssen T1, Kern R1, Cornelissen C2
1University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany, 2Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
Presentation Documents
OBJECTIVES: The therapeutic options for Multiple Sclerosis(MS) improved over the past years with the approval of new substances. Therapeutic optimization must take into account an individualized assessment of clinical and imaging disease activity, treatment response as well as identifying early risk factors for treatment failure. This study will address by assess this issue by 1. Assess the utility of a tool that helps to identify patients with ongoing disease activity 2. The systematic collection of a broader set of functional domains to explore their potential to be used as a predictive measure of future disease activity or treatment response. 3. Evaluate the clinical course of patients according to NEDA-4 parameter as measured by relapse activity, disability progression, MRI activity and change in brain volume. 4. Assess the therapeutic effectiveness of switching to fingolimod if the patients are assessed to be failing their current first line therapy. METHODS:
Conference/Value in Health Info
2015-11, ISPOR Europe 2015, Milan, Italy
Value in Health, Vol. 18, No. 7 (November 2015)
Code
PRM20
Topic
Clinical Outcomes, Real World Data & Information Systems, Study Approaches
Topic Subcategory
Clinical Outcomes Assessment, Reproducibility & Replicability
Disease
Neurological Disorders