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WithdrawnNCT03059849BEAT-IBDUpdated Jan 18, 2020

Brief Escalation of Adalimumab Treatment for Prevention of Clinical Relapse in IBD

A Phase 4 interventional study of Adalimumab in Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, sponsored by McMaster University. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-01-18.

Sponsored by McMaster University · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
lack of funding
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

To examine whether a temporary three month increase in adalimumab dosing will prevent relapse in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in clinical remission who have elevated calprotectin.

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Patients using adalimumab for Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis who are in clinical remission will be followed with fecal calprotectin monitoring every 3 months. Patients with a sustained rise in calprotectin who maintain clinical remission will be offered an opportunity to have an increase in adalimumab for three months. Patients who use the three months of increased adalimumab dosing will be compared to patients who do not use increased dosing to determine if relapse rates differ between these two groups.

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Conditions studied

  • Crohn Disease
  • Ulcerative Colitis
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In context

Crohn Disease

1,923 studies on the registry are indexed under Crohn Disease; 467 are open to participants now.

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Lead sponsor

McMaster University is the lead sponsor of 738 studies on the registry; 125 are open to participants now.

Of its 7 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 3 (43%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Adults ages 18 and older with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
  2. Patients are in clinical remission according to the last 'Abbvie Care' clinical symptom assessment (using Partial Mayo score \< 2 or Harvey-Bradshaw Index \< 4)
  3. Patient using adalimumab at a dose of at least 40mg subcutaneously bi-weekly, and at a maximum dose of 40mg subcutaneously weekly (or 80mg subcutaneously bi-weekly).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pregnant women or plans for pregnancy within 3 months of study inclusion
  2. Abdominal abscess
  3. Inability or unwillingness to provide informed consent
  4. Any other condition, which, in the opinion of the investigators would impede competence or compliance or possibly hinder completion of the study
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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Temporary increase in adalimumab

    Drug: Adalimumab

  • No intervention
    Continued monitoring as per standard of care

Interventions

  • Dose of adalimumab will be increased by 40mg every 2 weeks.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of patients with clinical relapse

    Clinical relapse will be based on increased clinical symptoms or endoscopic changes requiring use of corticosteroids, addition of an immunomodulator, change to another biologic therapy, or surgery.

    Time frame: One year

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Feb 2018; primary completion for Feb 2019, 12 months later.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 13, 2017
First posted
Feb 23, 2017
StartEst.
Feb 1, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Feb 1, 2019
CompletionEst.
Sep 1, 2019
Last update
Jan 18, 2020
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 18, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03059849
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 23, 2017
Start date
Feb 1, 2018 (estimated)
Primary completion
Feb 1, 2019 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 1, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 18, 2020

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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