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For patients with moderate plaque psoriasis who are intolerable to, have a contraindication to or have failed classical systemic treatments, the current commonly employed management strategy encompasses treatment with biologic agents. The direct and indirect costs of biologic treatment, accruing, among others, from the high drug acquisition and administration costs, the required baseline safety screening and subsequent routine monitoring as well as the potential loss of patients' working hours constitute a significant financial burden on the public healthcare system. In light of the above evidence, it appears that in routine care apremilast may fulfill an important gap in the treatment armamentarium of psoriasis by providing a promising treatment option to be employed prior to biologics, which has demonstrated efficacy even in hard-to-treat areas such as the scalp, nails, palms and soles, and has a limited manageable safety profile, while being more convenient and cost-effective than biologics. In view of the scarcity of real-world evidence regarding the impact of apremilast on the patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and extent and severity of the disease, and under the consideration that the moderate psoriasis patient {defined as [10<body surface area (BSA)<20 or 10<psoriasis area severity index (PASI)<20] and 10<dermatology quality of life index (DLQI)<20}, naïve to biologic treatment was likely underrepresented in the pivotal ESTEEM trials since approximately 30% of the enrolled patients had been previously treated with biologic therapy, 28-30% had a baseline PASI score >20, and 48-52% had a BSA >20%, this study represents an attempt to examine the impact of apremilast in routine clinical practice settings in Greece on the patient with moderate plaque psoriasis when this therapeutic strategy precedes biologics in the treatment algorithm. Specifically, the present study aims to generate novel real-world evidence on the effect of apremilast treatment in biologic treatment naïve patients with moderate plaque psoriasis in terms of the patients' HRQoL, patient-perceived benefits of therapy, treatment response rate, and impact on nail, scalp and palmoplantar psoriatic involvement and severity of pruritus, while concurrently assessing apremilast survival rate and cost per PASI-75 responder in the routine clinical practice of Greece.


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NCT number NCT03059953
Study type Observational
Source Genesis Pharma S.A.
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Status Completed
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Start date April 7, 2017
Completion date April 24, 2019

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