Research Article
Cost of Tuberculosis Care in Programmatic Settings from Karnataka, India: Is It Catastrophic for the Patients?
Table 5
Comparison of total cost incurred by the TB patients among various sociodemographic groups in the three selected urban TB units of Karnataka, India (2017-2018).
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Indicates significant difference at . ᴥMann-Whitney test. ¥Kruskal-Wallis test. Note: health-seeking behavior was also significantly associated with the higher median out-of-pocket expenditure (OPE), i.e., ≥8000 INR on applying a chi-square test ( value being 24.80 and ). |