Table 3.
The costs incurred in treating patients of acute diarrhea in treatment and control group, in Rupees (1$ = 36 Rs, 1996)
| Cost Components | Treatment (mean ± SE) | Control (mean ± SE) | P value |
| Direct medical cost (Patient) | 23.6 ± 7 | 17.3 ± 6 | 0.5 |
| - Visiting fees | 15.9 ± 6 | 6.9 ± 5 | 0.2 |
| - Medicines | 8 ± 4 | 9.1 ± 5 | 0.5 |
| Direct medical cost(Government) | 309.4 ± 34 | 351.7 ± 39 | 0.4 |
| - Cost of out-patient visits | 3.5 ± 1 | 2.6 ± 1 | 0.2 |
| - Cost of hospital stay | 195.3 ± 25 | 238.7 ± 32 | 0.2 |
| - Cost of ORS used | 15.7 ± 6 | 15 ± 4 | 0.7 |
| - Cost of antibiotics used | 11.1 ± 4 | 18.6 ± 6 | 0.4 |
| - Cost of Intravenous fluids used | 10.8 ± 3 | 17.7 ± 6 | 0.3 |
| - Cost of laboratory test | 90.2 ± 11 | 93.4 ± 9 | 0.6 |
| Direct non-medical cost | 100.7 ± 11 | 97.5 ± 12 | 0.7 |
| - Travel costs | 85.9 ± 10 | 76.8 ± 8 | 0.4 |
| - Other costs | 14.7 ± 4 | 20.7 ± 6 | 0.3 |
| Indirect costs | 47.5 ± 11 | 53.9 ± 12 | 0.7 |
| Total cost of diarrhea | 481.25 ± 44 | 520.6 ± 54 | 0.6 |