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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

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Registration number
NCT00989560
Ethics application status
Date submitted
2/10/2009
Date registered
5/10/2009
Date last updated
13/01/2014

Titles & IDs
Public title
Post-operative Crohn's Endoscopic Recurrence Study
Scientific title
Post-Operative Crohn's Disease Endoscopic Recurrence "POCER" Study: Endoscopic Guided Therapeutic Intervention & Determination of Cause
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
HREC-A 077/09
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
POCER
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Crohn's Disease 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Oral and Gastrointestinal 0 0 0 0
Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory and Immune System 0 0 0 0
Other inflammatory or immune system disorders
Oral and Gastrointestinal 0 0 0 0
Crohn's disease
Other 0 0 0 0
Research that is not of generic health relevance and not applicable to specific health categories listed above

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Surgery - endoscopy

Active comparator: Active arm -

No intervention: Standard care arm -


Treatment: Surgery: endoscopy
patients receive best treatment and care with an additional endoscopy
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Surgery
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Endoscopic recurrence of disease
Timepoint [1] 0 0
18 months

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* clinical diagnosis of Crohn's and proven history of disease
* patient undergone surgical resection with creation of a primary anastomosis
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* endoscopically inaccessible anastomosis by standard colonoscopy
* presence of an end stoma
* pregnancy
* suspected perforation of the gastrointestinal tract
* presence of certain unsuitable comorbidities

Study design
Purpose of the study
Prevention
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/08/2009
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/04/2013
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
175
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
VIC
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
St Vincent's Hospital - Melbourne
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
3065 - Melbourne

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
University of Melbourne
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
This randomised, controlled study aims to evaluate the impact of endoscopic assessment, and adjustment of therapy, after surgery in patients with Crohn's disease. The primary endpoint is the severity of endoscopic recurrence. In addition, tissue will be collected for microbiological and immunological analysis.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00989560
Trial related presentations / publications
Teh JJ, Berendsen EM, Hoedt EC, Kang S, Zhang J, Zhang F, Liu Q, Hamilton AL, Wilson-O'Brien A, Ching J, Sung JJY, Yu J, Ng SC, Kamm MA, Morrison M. Novel strain-level resolution of Crohn's disease mucosa-associated microbiota via an ex vivo combination of microbe culture and metagenomic sequencing. ISME J. 2021 Nov;15(11):3326-3338. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-00991-1. Epub 2021 May 25.
Wright EK, Kamm MA, Dr Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV, Liew D. Cost-effectiveness of Crohn's disease post-operative care. World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Apr 14;22(14):3860-8. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i14.3860.
Wright EK, Kamm MA, De Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Sparrow MP, Florin TH, Gibson PR, Debinski H, Gearry RB, Macrae FA, Leong RW, Kronborg I, Radford-Smith G, Selby W, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV. Effect of intestinal resection on quality of life in Crohn's disease. J Crohns Colitis. 2015 Jun;9(6):452-62. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjv058. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
Wright EK, Kamm MA, De Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Leach S, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Jakobovits SL, Florin TH, Gibson PR, Debinski H, Macrae FA, Samuel D, Kronborg I, Radford-Smith G, Selby W, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Day AS, Desmond PV, Gearry RB. Measurement of fecal calprotectin improves monitoring and detection of recurrence of Crohn's disease after surgery. Gastroenterology. 2015 May;148(5):938-947.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.01.026. Epub 2015 Jan 22.
De Cruz P, Kamm MA, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Gibson PR, Sparrow M, Leong RW, Florin TH, Gearry RB, Radford-Smith G, Macrae FA, Debinski H, Selby W, Kronborg I, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV. Crohn's disease management after intestinal resection: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2015 Apr 11;385(9976):1406-17. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61908-5. Epub 2014 Dec 24.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Michael A Kamm, MBBS MD FRCP FRACP
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St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne; University of Melbourne
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Contact person for public queries
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Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00989560