An Observational Study of the Safety of Direct-acting Antivirals in Patients With Hepatitis C

August 5, 2019 updated by: Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Kaiser Permanente

Safety of Direct-Acting Antiviral Medications for Hepatitis C

The investigators will assess whether patients with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) who are prescribed direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications experience higher rates of adverse events than patients with HCV who are untreated. The investigators hypothesize that patients receiving DAAs do not experience higher rates of adverse events compared to patients who have not received DAAs. The study population is adults between the ages of 18 and 88 with any indication of a diagnosis of HCV. An intervention group (those receiving a DAA) and comparison group (those who are not treated) will be created using medication dispensing data. Eligibility for the study will be determined from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2017. Covariates will be collected from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2017. Individual study sites may have access to historical data prior to 2011 that can be used as covariates or to identify individuals with HCV. The primary outcomes of interest include acute myocardial infarction, neurological outcomes (e.g. acute stroke, intracranial bleed), acute kidney failure, acute on chronic liver failure, hepatic decompensation, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, cancer, bradyarrhythmia, and death. The secondary outcomes include decompensated cirrhosis, hospitalization, emergency department visit, and arrhythmia. Outcomes will be assessed from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2017. The investigators will use two different analytic approaches to answer the question of interest: a Poisson regression model and marginal structural modeling (MSM). The simpler Poisson model is an extension of tabular rate of event analysis. The more complicated MSM model incorporates modeling of the treatment decision to more flexibly control for confounding by indication. For each outcome, the investigators will only record the first date an outcome occurs. Each outcome will be modeled separately.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

Study Type

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Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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33808

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 88 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

N/A

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

The groups/cohorts will consist of all HCV patients from Kaiser Permanente Southern California region, Kaiser Permanente Northern California region, and the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • HCV viral load
  • HCV genotype
  • HCV qualitative
  • HCV antibody
  • HCV drug
  • Continuously enrolled 12 months

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Each outcome will be analyzed separately as time to first event, thus people who experience an outcome prior to their study start date are ineligible for analyses related to that particular outcome.

The results will be examined for sensitivity to the following possible exclusion criteria:

  • Achieved SVR-12 prior to index date
  • HCV treatment experienced prior to index date
  • No visit in GI, Infectious Disease, or Liver Transplant / Hepatology
  • No positive HCV test (genotype, viral load, or qualitative)
  • No recent positive HCV test (genotype, viral load or qualitative)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Group / Cohort

A group or subgroup of participants in an observational study that is assessed for biomedical or health outcomes.
Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
Direct Acting Antivirals
Patients who receive a direct acting antiviral enter the DAA cohort at the time of initiation of the drug.
Drug: Direct Acting Antivirals
The time period during which a patient is dispensed the medication and for up to 180 days after initiation of the medication.
Comparison
The exposure time of patients who have not received a direct acting antiviral (patients can change from the comparison to the DAA group once they receive the medication)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Inpatient encounter with an ICD-9 diagnosis code of 410.xx or ICD-10 diagnosis code of I21.xx.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
Time Frame: Labs and diagnoses collected from clinical encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
An acute change in MELD (model for end stage liver disease) score of 5 or more and the change is deemed to have persisted (defined as meeting one of the following criteria: MELD continues to be elevated 3 months later, liver transplant, death). The minimum value for the MELD is 6.43, but there is no maximum value. Higher scores mean a worse outcome.
Labs and diagnoses collected from clinical encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Acute Kidney Failure (AKF)
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Encounters with an ICD-9 diagnosis code of 584.xx or ICD-10 diagnosis code of N17.xx.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Inpatient encounters with ICD-9 diagnosis code of 995.92, 995.94, 785.52 or ICD-10 code of R65.11 or R65.2x.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Death
Time Frame: Death dates will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Date of death in one or more records. Death data comes from medical records, Social Security, or state databases.
Death dates will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Ischemic Stroke
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Inpatient encounters with ICD-9 diagnosis code of 433.xx, 434.xx or ICD-10 code of I63.xx, I65.xx.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Hemorrhagic Stroke
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Inpatient encounters with ICD-9 diagnosis code of 430.xx-432.xx or ICD-10 code of I60.xx-I62.xx
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Decompensated Cirrhosis
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
A patient will be characterized as having decompensated cirrhosis from an encounter indicating jaundice (ICD-9 diagnosis code of 782.4 or ICD-10 code of R17), ascites (ICD-9 diagnosis code of 789.5, 789.51, 789.59 or ICD-10 diagnosis code of R18.0, R18.8, K71.51, K70.11, or K70.31), or varices (ICD-9 diagnosis code of 456.0, 456.20 or ICD-10 diagnosis code of I85.01 or I85.11, or a medication dispense of lactulose or rifaximin along with a diagnosis of cirrhosis.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Rate of Hospitalizations
Time Frame: Hospitalizations will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
An encounter in which the place of service is an inpatient hospitalization.
Hospitalizations will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Rate of Emergency Department Visits
Time Frame: ED visits will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
An encounter in which the place of service is an emergency department or urgent care center.
ED visits will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Arrhythmia
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Inpatient encounters with an ICD-9 diagnosis code of 427.1, 427.42, 427.5, 427.9 or an ICD-10 diagnosis code of I47.2, I49.01, I49.02, I46.9, I49.9.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Liver Cancer
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Encounters with ICD-9 diagnosis code of 155.xx or ICD-10 code of C22.xx.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of Cancers Other Than Liver Cancer
Time Frame: Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Encounters with ICD-9 codes 140.xx through 208.xx, except 155.xx or ICD-10 coes C00-C97 except C22.xx.
Patient diagnoses collected from encounters will be examined through study completion, or up to 180 days from the day the patient initiated a DAA.
Incidence of HBV Reactivation
Time Frame: Labs will be for up to 180 days following the initiation of a DAA.
We identified HBV reactivations in three different ways [Di Bisceglie et al., 2015; Yanny et al., 2018]: (1) patients who had a history of Hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) positive and were Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative at the time of initiating DAA therapy who became HBsAg positive within 180 days after receiving a DAA; (2) patients with undetectable levels of HBV DNA at the time of initiating DAA therapy who had a numerical result within 180 days after receiving a DAA; (3) patients with a numerical HBV DNA result at the time of initiating DAA therapy whose viral load increased by a factor of 10 within 180 days after receiving a DAA. For all methods of detecting a reactivation, we required that the reactivations be clinically significant: bilirubin at least 3, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) at least 400, or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) at least 500.
Labs will be for up to 180 days following the initiation of a DAA.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
Kaiser Permanente

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Elizabeth A McGlynn, PhD, Kaiser Permanente

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

The actual date on which the first participant was enrolled in a clinical study. The "anticipated" study start date is the date that the researchers think will be the study start date.
January 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention to collect final data for the primary outcome measure. Whether the clinical study ended according to the protocol or was terminated does not affect this date. For clinical studies with more than one primary outcome measure with different completion dates, this term refers to the date on which data collection is completed for all the primary outcome measures. The "anticipated" primary completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the primary completion date for the study.
December 31, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention/treatment to collect final data for the primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, and adverse events (that is, the last participant's last visit). The "anticipated" study completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the study completion date.
December 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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January 31, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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January 31, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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February 6, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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August 7, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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August 5, 2019

Last Verified

Last Verified

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August 1, 2019

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Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

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  • RI-RCR-1000

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

IPD Plan Description

Current plan is to make a de-identified data set available to investigators under specified conditions.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

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