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Previous studies have reported high rates of BCG maintenance discontinuation [ 19, 27].
The low rate of maintenance discontinuation in the present study may be due, in part, to improvements in clinical practice and increased knowledge on the prevention and management of BCG-associated adverse events.
However, most of those patients prescribed BCG maintenance therapy are scheduled for at least 1 year of therapy, as recommended by current guidelines for NMIBC management, and BCG maintenance discontinuation is low.
Despite the marked underuse of BCG noted in the present study, there appear to be some improvements in management as evidenced by the low maintenance discontinuation rate and the duration and schedule of maintenance instillations used.
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20 Treatment may be divided into four phases corresponding to the natural history of MDD: acute, continuation, maintenance, and discontinuation.
Longitudinal cohort studies are needed therefore, to determine the patterns of adoption, maintenance, and discontinuation of activity, and the factors associated with these changes.
HABITAT is significant as it Uses a longitudinal study design to assess activity adoption, maintenance and discontinuation, as well as the factors associated with activity change.
Currently identified predictors of relapse are still relatively non-specific, and further research is needed to inform decisions on maintenance or discontinuation for individual patients.
Without the use of a placebo control group, we cannot rule out the possibility that the raters were unintentionally biased to see positive results (in both the maintenance and discontinuation phases) in all patients.
In the 90 days following all maintenance treatment discontinuation, we found that 12% (n=259) had a claim for hospital admission, 5% (n=96) had a claim for a gastrointestinal-related surgery, and 0.3% (n=6) had a claim for cyclosporine, tacrolimus, or mycophenolate, which could be indicative of a maintenance treatment failure.
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