Novel Measurement of Rapid Treatment Success with ReQuestTM: First and Sustained Symptom Relief as Outcome Parameters in Patients with Endoscopy-Negative GERD Receiving 20 mg Pantoprazole or 20 mg Esomeprazole
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by S. Karger AG in Digestion
- Vol. 71 (3), 152-158
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000085576
Abstract
A prime concern for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) patients is fast symptom control. Sparse valid information is available on the rapidity of the effect of proton pump inhibitors in provid ing symptom relief. The new reflux questionnaire ReQuest is validated for daily assessment of changes in GERD symptoms. Therefore, this study investigated the efficacy of 20 mg pantoprazole and 20 mg esomeprazole with regard to the time to symptom relief in patients with endoscopy-negative GERD (enGERD) using ReQuest. 529 patients were treated with pantoprazole or esomeprazole over 4 weeks. ReQuest symptom scores were assessed daily. The mean and median times to first and sustained symptom relief were determined. Median time to first symptom relief was 2 days for both drugs (intention-to-treat population). The median time to sustained symptom relief was 3 days shorter with pantoprazole (10.0 vs. 13.0 days). The Hodges-Lehmann estimator for the difference in time to reach first and sustained symptom relief between both groups was 0.00 days. For both variables the one-sided 95% CI (Moses) was [0.00; infinity] documenting no significant differences between the treatment groups. The rapidity of symptom control can be evaluated by clinically significant parameters using ReQuest. Pantoprazole and esomeprazole are equally effective in the time to first and sustained symptom relief.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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