The road to biologics in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa: a nationwide drug utilization study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prolonged systemic antibiotic treatment is often a part of management of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Although biologic therapies are now available, the patient's treatment journey leading to biologic therapy is unclear.

Objectives

To examine treatment patterns and duration of systemic treatment use in patients with HS preceding biologic therapy.

Methods

We identified all patients with HS receiving treatment with biologics in the Danish National Patient Registry from 2010 to 2018 and extracted their entire prescription history of specific systemic treatments from the Danish National Prescription Registry since its inception in 1995. The patients' treatment journeys are graphically displayed through Sankey diagrams and box plots generated to show temporal

SUBMITTER: Ring HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796665 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature