Table 5.
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