Treatment Expenditure Pattern of Epileptic Patients: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital, Kolkata, India

Table 7

Distribution of average total expenditure for treatment of epilepsy according to status of response (𝑛=315).

Expenditure; /month (INR)*	Not responded		Responded		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
<200	8	4%	194	96%	202	100.0%
201–400	2	3.3%	58	96.7%	60	100.0%
401–600	1	4.2%	23	95.8%	24	100.0%
601–800	6	35.3%	11	64.7%	17	100.0%
Above 800	3	25%	9	75%	12	100.0%
Total	20	6.3%	295	93.7%	315	100.0%
Mean ± SD; (INR)	461.25±351.77		203.49±250.93		𝑈=1450,; 𝑃<0.001

∗INR: Indian rupees.