Research Article
Treatment Expenditure Pattern of Epileptic Patients: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital, Kolkata, India
Table 6
Distribution of the average total expenditure for treatment of epilepsy according to mode of therapy (
).
| Expenditure/ month (INR)* | Monotherapy |
Polytherapy |
Total | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % |
| <200 | 121 | 59.9% | 81 | 40.1% | 202 | 100.0% | 201–400 | 38 | 63.3% | 22 | 36.7% | 60 | 100.0% | 401–600 | 10 | 41.7% | 14 | 58.3% | 24 | 100.0% | 601–800 | 5 | 29.4% | 12 | 70.6% | 17 | 100.0% | Above 800 | 0 | 00.0% | 12 | 100.0% | 12 | 100.0% |
| Total | 174 | 55.2% | 141 | 44.8% | 315 | 100.0% |
| Mean SD (INR) | | | ,
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INR: Indian rupees.
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