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 (𝑛=315).

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)	156.34±162.89		298.23±337.52		𝑈=9414.5,; 𝑃<0.001

∗INR: Indian rupees.