Disease index

opioid-induced constipation

Pain · 2009–2009

2decisions
1medicine
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision here pre-dates the consumer comments facility, so no input would be recorded either way.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
methylnaltrexone bromide Treatment of opioid-induced constipation in palliative care patients who have failed to respond to, or are unable to tolerate, laxative therapies. Jul 2009 Recommended with restriction no section in document
methylnaltrexone bromide Initial and continuing treatment of opioid-induced constipation in palliative care patients who have failed to respond to, or are unable to tolerate, laxative… Mar 2009 Not recommended no section in document

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 3 technologies for this condition, recommending 2 . A different committee, a different population and a different price: this is what has been looked at there, not a verdict on what happened here.

TechnologyAppraisalOutcomeDate
naldemedineNaldemedine for treating opioid-induced constipation TA651 recommended 2020-09
methylnaltrexone bromideMethylnaltrexone bromide for treating opioid-induced constipation (terminated appraisal) TA468 terminated 2017-08
naloxegolNaloxegol for treating opioid‑induced constipation TA345 recommended 2015-07

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
naloxegol + purified waterMOVANTIK naloxegol (as oxalate) 12.5 mg film-coated tablet blister pac 2016 2

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 0 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.