Since approval of the NSSAE collection form 3 years ago, the project officers published the article Severe Isoniazid-associated Liver Injuries Among persons Being Treated for Latent Tuberculosis Infection--- United States, 2004--2008, Morbidity and Mortality Report , 2010. In this article, the project officers described 17 reports of severe adverse events (SAEs) in 15 adults and two children; all patients had received isoniazid (INH) and had experienced severe liver injury. This article emphasized that healthcare providers should prescribe only 1-month supply of INH with careful monitoring. Providers should report possible INH-associated SAEs to their respective health department staff who will in turn report to CDC.
The project officers also have presented these SAEs to national and international audiences at scientific conferences. There has been an increase in the number of SAE reports. Since 2008, project officers received an additional 25 SAE reports and investigated 5 of these on site. A better understanding of the data needed to accurately capture important elements describing factors that led to these events and as a result, the NSSAE data collection form has been shortened into four pages instead of the original 6 pages.
The project officers have conducted onsite investigation of SAEs for the past 3 years and now have a better understanding of the data needed to accurately capture important elements describing factors that led to these events. As a result, the NSSAE data collection form has been shortened into four pages instead of the original 6 pages. Variables such as results of liver biopsy and hepatitis serology were removed because these were usually unreliable because of incomplete reporting or misreporting of information The project officers also have received increased number of SAE reports from 3 to 10 reports per year. The annual reporting burden increased from 24 hours to 60 hours.
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