The impact of rifaximin-α on the hospital resource use associated with the management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy: a retrospective observational study (IMPRESS)

Mark Hudson; Amr Radwan; Paola Di Maggio; Riccardo Cipelli; Stephen D. Ryder; John F. Dillon; William Jonathan Cash; Robert T. Przemioslo; Mark Wright; Debbie L. Shawcross; Rajiv Jalan; Sushma Saksena; Michael Allison; Paul Richardson; Elizabeth Farrington; Richard J. Aspinall

doi:10.1136/flgastro-2016-100792

The impact of rifaximin-α on the hospital resource use associated with the management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy: a retrospective observational study (IMPRESS)

Mark Hudson
, Amr Radwan
, Paola Di Maggio (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Riccardo Cipelli
, Stephen D. Ryder
, John F. Dillon
, William Jonathan Cash
, Robert T. Przemioslo
, Mark Wright
, Debbie L. Shawcross
, Rajiv Jalan
, Sushma Saksena
, Michael Allison
, Paul Richardson
, Elizabeth Farrington
, Richard J. Aspinall

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Objective: To compare all-cause and liver-related hospital resource use in the 6 and 12 months pre-rifaximin-α and post-rifaximin-α initiation in UK patients with hepatic encephalopathy (HE).

Design: A UK multicentre, retrospective, observational study. Patients' medical records were reviewed for demographics, clinical outcomes and adverse events (AEs) to rifaximin-α. Details of hospital admissions/attendances in the 6 and 12 months pre-rifaximin-α and post-rifaximin-α initiation were extracted from hospital electronic databases.

Setting: 13 National Health Service centres.

Patients: 207 patients with HE who initiated rifaximin-α between July 2008 and May 2014. Hospital resource use data were available for 145/207 patients.

Main outcome measure: Change in mean number of liver-related hospital bed days/patient (total and critical care) between the 6 months pre-rifaximin-α and post-rifaximin-α initiation.

Results: Comparing the 6 months pre-rifaximin-α and post-rifaximin-α initiation in alive patients at the end of the observation period (N=114): there were significant reductions in the mean number of hospitalisations/patient (liver-related 1.3 to 0.5, p<0.001; all-cause 1.9 to 0.9, p<0.001), hospital bed days/patient (liver-related 17.8 to 6.8, p<0.001; all-cause 25.4 to 10.6, p<0.001), 30-day hospital readmissions/patient (liver-related 0.5 to 0.2, p=0.039; all-cause 0.8 to 0.4, p=0.024) and emergency department (ED) attendances/patient (all-cause, 1.0 to 0.5, p<0.001). The mean critical care bed days/patient reduced significantly for all-cause admissions (1.3 to 0.3, p=0.049); non-significant reduction for liver-related admissions. 4% of patients (9/207) developed AEs.

Conclusions: In UK clinical practice, treatment with rifaximin-α for HE is well-tolerated and associated with significant reductions in hospitalisations, bed days (including critical care), ED attendances and 30-day readmissions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	243-251
Number of pages	9
Journal	Frontline Gastroenterology
Volume	8
Issue number	4
Early online date	7 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2016-100792
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017

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Hudson, M., Radwan, A., Di Maggio, P., Cipelli, R., Ryder, S. D., Dillon, J. F., Cash, W. J., Przemioslo, R. T., Wright, M., Shawcross, D. L., Jalan, R., Saksena, S., Allison, M., Richardson, P., Farrington, E., & Aspinall, R. J. (2017). The impact of rifaximin-α on the hospital resource use associated with the management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy: a retrospective observational study (IMPRESS). Frontline Gastroenterology, 8(4), 243-251. https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2016-100792

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Hudson, M, Radwan, A, Di Maggio, P, Cipelli, R, Ryder, SD, Dillon, JF, Cash, WJ, Przemioslo, RT, Wright, M, Shawcross, DL, Jalan, R, Saksena, S, Allison, M, Richardson, P, Farrington, E & Aspinall, RJ 2017, 'The impact of rifaximin-α on the hospital resource use associated with the management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy: a retrospective observational study (IMPRESS)', Frontline Gastroenterology, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 243-251. https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2016-100792

The impact of rifaximin-α on the hospital resource use associated with the management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy: a retrospective observational study (IMPRESS). / Hudson, Mark; Radwan, Amr; Di Maggio, Paola (Lead / Corresponding author) et al.
In: Frontline Gastroenterology, Vol. 8, No. 4, 10.2017, p. 243-251.

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