Table 5.

Patient-related recurrent costs (US$)

		Costs
Category of cost	Number of patients reporting non-zero cost	Total reported	Min value	Max value	Per patient per 8 months
					Median	Mean
Expenses with traditional healers	11	305	0	141	0.0	7.0
Diagnosis stage (excluding travel)
Consultation charges	48	196	0	16	1.5	4.5
Investigations	50	830	0.1	119	7.5	19.0
Sub-Total Diagnosis		1,026	0.2	132	10	23.4
Treatment (excluding medicines and travel)
Consultation charges	14	66	0	15	0.0	1.5
Investigations	31	57	0	12	0.2	1.3
Sub-Total Treatment		123	0	27	0.3	2.8
Patients' travel and opportunity costs
Travel expenses	11	184	0	37	0.0	4.2
Opportunity costs of days lost due to TB	18	5,152	0	1,755	0.0	117.8
Opportunity costs of travel time	50	842	1.8	202	8.8	19.3
Sub-Total Patients' Travel		6,179	2.4	1,780	3.8	141.2
Costs of escorts (travel time lost + cost of travel)
Travel expenses	6	73	0	40	0.0	1.7
Opportunity costs of travel time	33	146	0	44	0.9	3.3
Sub-Total Costs of Escorts		219	0	84	0.9	5.0
Other (miscellaneous) expenditures	5	100	0	36	0.0	2.3
TOTAL PATIENTS' COSTS		7,952			35.90	181.80

A breakdown of patient-related recurrent costs across main categories is presented. Frequency of costs from the total n = 50 is reported and total reported costs are shown versus median per patient's treatment course.

Note 1: The numbers of patients who reported costs are based on the total sample of 50.

Note 2: Minimum and maximum values and medians were derived for each type of costs separately and sub-totals in these columns are NOT the sums of their respective constituent costs.

Note 3: An increment from 7 months (median of patients' month at which costing data was collected) to 8 months (standard duration of treatment) was used to estimate mean values per patient per 8 months