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. 2018 Oct 31;25(5):300–306. doi: 10.3747/co.25.4231

TABLE IV.

Impact of subcutaneous (SC) rituximab on systemic therapy suite time and administration cost

Variable Study year

1 2 3 Overall
Systemic therapy suite time (hours)
 Current scenario: rituximab IV only 104,925 130,028 132,291 367,244
 SC implementation scenario 72,861 84,033 81,634 238,529

Incremental savings (CA$, 2017)
 Total 32,063 45,955 50,656 128,715
 Patients with FL 16,278 27,595 30,832 74,705
 Patients with DLBCL 15,785 18,400 19,824 54,009

Administration cost (CA$, 2017)
 Current scenario: rituximab IV only 23,448,090 29,058,145 29,563,785 82,070,019
 SC implementation scenario 17,065,918 19,902,854 19,480,616 56,449,388

Incremental savingsa (CA$, 2017)
 Total 6,382,172 9,155,290 10,083,169 25,620,632
 Patients with FL 3,240,070 5,492,846 6,137,158 14,870,074
 Patients with DLBCL 3,142,103 3,662,444 3,946,011 10,750,558

Total drug and administration cost (CA$, 2017)
 Current scenario: rituximab IV only 95,000,136 114,028,505 115,892,336 324,920,977
 SC implementation scenario 84,869,229 99,756,912 100,201,482 284,827,623

Incremental savingsa (CA$, 2017)
 Total 10,130,907 14,271,593 15,690,854 40,093,353
 Patients with FL 4,942,095 8,223,499 9,174,483 22,340,077
 Patients with DLBCL 5,188,811 6,048,094 6,516,371 17,753,276
a

Calculated as the difference between the current scenario and the SC implementation scenario.

IV = intravenous; FL = follicular lymphoma; DLBCL = diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.