Research Article
Expenditure Pattern for TB Treatment among Patients Registered in an Urban Government DOTS Program in Chennai City, South India
Table 3
Pretreatment costs to patients with TB.
| | Types of cost | Nil cost
No (%) | Costs incurred by patients | | | Up to Rs. 500
No (%) | Rs. > 500
No (%) | Total
No (%) |
| | Medical costs | 55 (18.3) | 130 (43.3) | 115 (38.4) | 145 (81.7) | | Nonmedical costs | 21 (7.0 ) | 242 (80.7) | 37 (12.3) | 279 (93.0) | | Direct costs | 5 (1.7) | 147 (49.0) | 149 (49.3) | 295 (98.3) | | Indirect costs | 237 (79.0) | 6 (2.0) | 57 (19.0) | 63 (21.0) |
| | Total costs | 4 (1.4) | 124 (41.3) | 172 (57.3) | 196 (98.6) |
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