How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted prescribing pancreatic enzyme replacement to people with unresectable pancreatic cancer? medrxivpreprint UniOfSurrey UniofOxford unibirmingham COVID19 coronavirus covid enzyme cancer pancreas pandemic
By Neha MathurJul 13 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the rates of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy prescribing in England.
About the study In the present study, researchers used the OpenSAFELY-TPP platform to conduct an automated audit of 24 million adults with unresectable pancreatic cancer receiving PERT between 1 January 2015 and 31 March 2022. The study dataset covered over 40% of England’s population and was pseudonymized, which means all primary care patient records included coded diagnoses, medications, and physiological parameters. OpenSAFELY-TPP offered several technical and organizational controls.
Study findings The authors observed an insubstantial dip of around 3% in PERT prescribing to people with unresectable pancreatic cancer between March and July 2020, i.e., at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the rates again surged to normal levels by September 2020.
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