Catastrophic costs of treating drug resistant TB patients in a tertiary care hospital in India.
Indian J Tuberc
; 66(1): 87-91, 2019 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Private healthcare is choice of point of care for 70% of Indians. Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment is costly and involves duration as long as 2 years.AIM:
To estimate costs to patients undergoing treatment for MDR-TB.METHODS:
A health-economics questionnaire was administered to 50 consecutive patients who successfully completed ambulatory private treatment for MDR-TB. Direct costs included drug costs, investigations, consultation fees, travel costs, hospitalisation and invasive procedures and cost prior to presentation to us. Indirect costs included loss of income.RESULTS:
Of our cohort of 50 patients, 36 had pulmonary TB while 14 had extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB). 40 had MDR-TB and 10 had XDR-TB. There were 15 males and 35 females. Mean age was 30 years (range 16-61 years). Treatment cost for pulmonary MDR-TB averaged $5723 while it averaged $8401 for pulmonary XDR-TB and $5609 for EPTB. The major expense was due to drug costs (37%) while consultation fees were only 5%. Annual individual income for the cohort ranged from $0 to $63,000 (mean $11,430). On average, the cost of treatment ranged from 2.56% to 180.34% of the annual family income. 34/50 (68%) had total costs greater than 20% of annual family income and 39/50 (78%) had total costs greater than 10% of annual family income. The number of patients with total costs >40% of total family income was 22.CONCLUSION:
MDR-TB in the private sector results in "catastrophic health costs". Financial and social support is essential for patients undergoing treatment for MDR-TB.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Tuberculose Pulmonar
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Gastos em Saúde
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Efeitos Psicossociais da Doença
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Tuberculose Extensivamente Resistente a Medicamentos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article