Treatment Patterns Among Patients With Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes In A Real-World Setting: Electronic Medical Record (Emr)-Based Data.

247Background: Treatment decisions in MDS are based on a prognostic scoring system that divides pts into five distinct risk categories (NCCN 2016). Treatment guidelines for HR MDS pts include hypomethylating agents (HMAs) alone (azacitidine u0026 decitabine), high-intensity induction chemotherapy (IC), u0026 stem cell transplant (SCT) alone or after HMAs. Limited information is available on how these recommendations are applied in practice. This study evaluated the real-world treatment of HR MDS pts. Methods: Newly diagnosed HR MDS pts who were ≥18 years old u0026 initiated first-line therapy (1LT) were retrospectively identified from a large United States EMR database between 1/1/2008 u0026 7/31/2015. As complete cytogenetics were not available in the database, HR was based on: ICD coding: ≥1 inpatient claim with an HR MDS ICD-9/10 code (ICD-9 code: 238.73; ICD-10 codes: D46.20, D46.21, D46.22), or ≥2 outpatient claims with an MDS ICD-9/10 code, or an adapted HR MDS algorithm (NCCN Guidelines in Oncology for MDS v.1.201...