Table 2.

Result of Meta-Analysis for Estimating OOPE and CHE

Direct OOPE on inpatient cancer care in India
Study Name	Mean	Standard Error	Variance	Lower limit	Upper limit
NSSO, 2020	75689.09	2.19	4.82	75684.8	75693.39
Kastor et al, 2018	70763.17	4778.85	222837415.4	61396.79	80129.55
Kaur et al, 2017	284688.06	41253.02	1701811739	203833.63	365542.5
Joseph et al, 2016	19925.98	946.59	896038.77	18070.69	21781.27
Goyal et al, 2014	198198.58	5063.85	25642546.44	188273.62	208123.54
Wani et al, 2013	3430.85	75.48	5697.83	3282.9	3578.8
Mahal et al, 2013	12061.32	365.78	133792.6	11344.41	12778.23
Summary effect	83396.52	19799.08	392003454.3	44591.05	122202
Direct OOPE on outpatient cancer care in India
Study Name	Mean	Standard Error	Variance	Lower limit	Upper limit
NSSO, 2020	3238.92	4.75	22.56	3229.61	3248.23
Kaur et al, 2017	75282.16	13235.45	175177246.8	49341.15	101223.17
Mahal et al, 2013	268.73	49.38	2438.27	171.95	365.51
Summary effect	2653.13	1481.86	2195924.37	-251.28	555.53
Total direct OOPE on cancer care in India
Study Name	Mean	Standard Error	Variance	Lower limit	Upper limit
NSSO, 2020	56105.95	1.99	3.98	56102.04	56109.86
Dinesh et al, 2019	37242.05	4401.8	19375851.15	28614.68	45869.42
Chauhan et al, 2019	45749.05	1531.11	2344294.11	42748.63	48750.47
Summary effect	47140.08	4872.88	23744905.93	37589.43	56690.74
Indirect OOPE on cancer care in India
Study Name	Mean	Standard Error	Variance	Lower limit	Upper limit
Dinesh et al, 2019	2802.88	733.34	537790.49	1365.56	4240.2
Chauhan et al, 2019	20984.69	53.32	2843.39	20880.18	21089.2
Summary effect	11908.5	9090.89	82644337.3	-5909.33	29726.31
Proportion of cancer patients facing CHE in India
Study name	Event rate		Lower Limit		Upper Limit
Sangar et al, 2019	0.3		0.292		0.309
Chauhan et al, 2019	0.34		0.296		0.387
Kastor et al, 2018	0.79				0.831
Basavaiah et al, 2018			0.671		0.839
Jain et al, 2016	0.84		0.786		0.883
Summary effect	0.627		0.378		0.823