Table 3.
Answers refer to IVIG treatment policy and criteria.
| Question | Answers | N (%) |
| How many hematology patients in your hospital do you estimate are currently receiving prophylactic immunoglobulin for secondary hypogammaglobulinemia? | 0–20 | 40 (83.33) |
| 21–50 | 7 (14.58) | |
| 51–100 | 1 (2.08) | |
| >100 | 0 (0) | |
| Does your hospital have a policy for the use of immunoglobulin replacement in hematological malignancies? | Yes | 13 (27.08) |
| No | 26 (54.17) | |
| I don’t know | 7 (14.58) | |
| Other | 2 (4.17) | |
| At your hospital, do you have to apply to any of the following to access Ig replacement? | Hospital or medical insurance | 25 (52.08) |
| Department of pharmacy | 9 (18.75) | |
| Blood Service clinician | 2 (4.17) | |
| Multidisciplinary or departmental meeting | 4 (8.33) | |
| None of the above | 11 (22.92) | |
| I don’t know | 7 (14.58) | |
| Other | 5 (10.42) | |
| Which formal criteria do you use to select patients for prophylactic Ig replacement? | No specific criteria | 40 (83.33) |
| Other | 8 (16.67) |