Data Input | Input Value and Source |
Number of cycles of trastuzumab administration over one year | 17 cycles (Assumption based on practice at the participating sites) |
Consumables utilisation and unit costs | Site estimate |
Drug doses and unit costs | Roche (Malaysia), drug package insert [17] [18] [32] |
Usage of leftover IV drugs | All leftover IV trastuzumab is shared and used (Assumption based on practice at the participating sites) |
Human resource utilisation (average working hours) | Site estimate |
Unit cost of human resources | Government salary scales [33] |
Anonymous patient weights | Data from study sites |
Patient treatment time | Site estimate |
Median female wage rate | RM8.22 per hour [34] |