PTH-090 Monitoring unplanned care and surgical events for crohn’s disease patients treated with biologics in england: linkage of routine administrative data and uk ibd registry

Introduction The UK IBD Registry (UK-IBD-R) is developing analyses of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) with linkage to locally-recorded registry data to generate aggregated reports and indicators to support IBD services. We have created methods to categorise relevant hospital events and track outcomes in HES. For this project, we produced metrics of unplanned care and surgical events before and after initiation of biologics, generating a national scale analysis from HES alone and a proof-of-concept study with linkage to UK-IBD-R. Method Datasets: HES for England (04/05 to 13/14); UK-IBD-R dataset (to June 2016). Patient cohorts : (1) HES cohort identified using HES only. We flagged all admissions (incl. daycases) with a diagnosis of CD and procedure code X921 (biologic infusion; assumed to be infliximab), locating 1 st infusion for each case; (2) Registry cohort was based on anonymized linkage (undertaken by NHS Digital), identifying cases with a registry-recorded diagnosis of CD, a medication entry for anti-TNF drug (infliximab, inflectra or adalimumab) and a valid start date. Hospital events in HES: All-cause episodes were extracted for 1 year before ( Yr-Pre ) and after ( Yr-Post ) start of treatment, categorising each inpatient and daycase event based on admission method, diagnoses (IBD-specific, IBD-related and Other) and procedures. Results HES cohort: n=15 399 (Age: 35 [16]; 47% male); Registry cohort: n=217 (Age: 26 [13.5]; 56% male). Unplanned care activity for Yr-Pre versus Yr-Post are shown in Abstract PTH090 Figure 1, confirming substantial reductions in all-cause and CD-specific emergency care following initiation of biologics in routine UK practice (p 71% ) continued infusion visits beyond induction phase (’Maintenance’), and 4522 ( 29% ) did not (’Stopped’). Surgical resections at 1 year: Total, 944 (6.2%); Maintenance versus Stopped: 395 (3.6%) v. 549 (12%), p Emergency admissions with ‘infections’ at 1  year: Total, 222 (1.4%); Maintenance versus Stopped: 146 (1.3%) v. 76 (1.7%), p=0.11. Conclusion These national scale data provide new insights into activity, costs and outcomes associated with routine use of biologics for CD in England. Linkage between UK-IBD-R and HES provides a potentially powerful tool for monitoring of activity, process and outcome of IBD care. The use of existing datasets reduces the burden of local point-of-care data collection, allowing focus on collecting items to enhance accuracy and clinical depth of analyses. [Funding: Crohn’s and Colitis UK] Disclosure of Interest None Declared