AB1080 Results in the follow-up of the nursing consultation for the monitoring of rheumatologic patients treated with intravenous therapies

Abstract

BackgroundIn the management of rheumatologic patients treated with intravenous therapies, its regular monitoring is recommended in order to ensure its safety. The Nursing Consultation for monitoring rheumatologic patients treated with Intravenous Therapies (NCIT) represents a major support to patient caring for it provides patient monitoring before treatment administration and prior to rheumatologist consultation.ObjectivesTo analyze number and types of incidents detected in the NCIT.MethodsA cross-sectional longitudinal, observational study of data from patients followed-up in the NCIT (which was initiated in 2012) was performed. We have collected data of gender, diagnosis, drug administered, incidents detected previously to the drug administration, and if the incident was detected by telephone (one day before drug administration) or by personal interview. Biostatistical analysis with R (3.3.2.) was performed.ResultsWe analyzed 7809 drug infusions corresponding to 545 patients (73% women). 48.25% of patients were diagnosed with osteoporosis (OP), 30.1% rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 5.7% ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 4.2% systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), 2.9% psoriatic arthritis (PsoA) and 8.3% had other diagnosis. The intravenous therapies were antiosteoporotic drug (7.8%) and biological and immunosuppressive treatment, being the most common drugs tocilizumab (38.89%), infliximab (31.9%) and abatacept (18.05%). In the 7809 treatment infusions, 477 incidents (4.1%) were registered, 33 of them related to the antiosteoporotic therapies and the other 444 incidents (93%) occurred in the biological therapies. The 63.7% of the incidents were detected by telephone one day before drug infusion. Statistical analysis showed that SLE patients exhibit higher tendency to incidents (4.8% of incidents in the 392 treatments for SLE patients; P=0.026) than other autoimmune diseases. On the other hand, RA and AS patients have incidents detected mainly by telephone ((P=0.047 y P=0.029 respectively). We also observed a high number of incidents in the intravenous administration of TCZ (P=0.009).ConclusionsThe NCIT has performed the follow-up of more than 5oo patients with only 6% of incidents, contributing to an improvement in the patients' health and in its caring. Moreover, the fact of identifying the incidents helps to reduce the number of personal consultations, avoids drug preparation in those cases where this infusion is suspended, and in summary it improves management of hospital resources.Disclosure of InterestNone declared