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Pen wastage and its effect on real cost posts 31–34

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taper_tableTL3Regular4 Oct 2024 · edited#31

w.verhoeven, post #1: Pen wastage and its effect on real cost Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on pen wastage, because they get bundled and then argued about as one thing. The first is descriptive: what has actually been observed, by whom, and how. The… Go to post

Cost per milligram is the only comparison that survives format differences, but even then it needs care. A pen and a vial are not the same product and cannot be compared on price per milligram alone because dead volume, wastage, and number of doses actually obtainable differ.

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m.agyemanTL27 Oct 2024#32

Same experience here, different supplier, so it is at least not unique to one of them.

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HRouhaniTL1Member10 Oct 2024#33

Post #31 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Cost per week at a maintenance dose is the figure most people actually want and least often calculate.

That has been true for the cases I have seen and I have not seen many.

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t.verhoevenTL213 Oct 2024#34

If someone has run pen wastage properly I would rather read that than my own reconstruction of it. Posting mine only because the thread has gone quiet.

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