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Development of a web tool to calculate the cumulative dose of glucocorticoids
Nuria Montero-Pastor1, Jesús T Sánchez-Costa1, Mercedes Guerra-Rodríguez1
1Unidad de Investigación de la Sociedad Española de Reumatología, Calle Marqués de Duero n°5, 28001 Madrid, Spain.
Introduction:
Glucocorticoids are associated with serious side effects related to dosing and time of use. Unfortunately, there is no standard method for determining glucocorticoid exposure, especially in patients undergoing long-term treatment.
Objective:
The aim of this work was to create a free and easy-to-use web application to calculate, in a systematic way, the total cumulative dose of corticosteroids.
Methods:
The total cumulative dose is calculated as the sum of all periods of treatment with different doses of corticosteroids, and is expressed as the equivalent dose of prednisone in mg. Glucocorticoid doses during periods in which the available information is missing or incomplete are estimated by systematic assumptions.
Results:
A simulation exercise using standard patterns of steroid use in polymyalgia rheumatica, and giant cell arteritis showed that even when the period of no information reached 50% of the time, the accuracy of the calculator had a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)<7%.
Conclusion:
This tool simplifies and standardizes the glucocorticoids cumulative dose calculation, thereby minimizing bias in the assessment of glucocorticoid cumulative dose.
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