All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) issues Final Appraisal Report on etanercept (Enbrel®) for treatment of children and adolescents with psoriasis

Source: All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG)

Date published: 08/04/2010 14:55

Summary
by: Yuet Wan

In its Final Appraisal Report, the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) did not support the use within NHS Wales of etanercept (Enbrel®) for the treatment of chronic severe plaque psoriasis in children and adolescents from the age of eight years who are inadequately controlled by, or are intolerant to, other systemic therapies or phototherapies. The cost effectiveness data presented were considered insufficient by the group.

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