Affiliation:
1. Department of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington Vermont USA
2. Division of Translational Research and Applied Statistics University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA
3. Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
4. Mission Health Neurology Asheville North Carolina USA
5. Department of Neurology University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA
Abstract
AbstractIntroduction/AimsWe developed a patient‐ and physician‐weighted consensus unit called the adverse event unit (AEU) that quantifies and compares adverse event (AE) burden among any group of medications in neurological patients. In this study we evaluated preliminary validity and feasibility of measuring AE burden with the AEU in myasthenia gravis (MG).MethodsThis is a single‐center, prospective, 1‐year, observational study of adult MG patients presenting for routine care between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022. The MG Activities of Daily Living (MG‐ADL), the 15‐item MG Quality of Life revised (MG‐QOL15r), MG‐Composite, and AEU scores were obtained at all visits. A priori primary feasibility metric was AEU completion rate equal to (within 3.8%, one‐sided 95% confidence interval [CI]) or better than MG‐ADL completion rate. Time to administer AEU and MG‐ADL/MG‐QOL15r, correlation between AEU total score and MG‐QOL15r, and median AEU scores for each MG medication were evaluated.ResultsFifty‐four patients completed 67 study visits; side effects were reported at 75% of the visits. The study met the primary feasibility endpoint; AEU and MG‐ADL were recorded at all visits. Times to administer the AEU (median 5 minutes) and MG‐ADL/MG‐QOL15r were similar. We observed a weak correlation of 0.29 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.51, P = .032) between AEU and MG‐QOL15r scores. Non–statistically significant differences in median AEU scores were observed among MG medications.DiscussionOur data demonstrate preliminary feasibility and validity of using the AEU to measure AE burden in MG. Future studies will compare AE burden among MG treatments and evaluate clinically meaningful AEU scores in MG.
Funder
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience,Neurology (clinical),Physiology
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