Cost of treatment and consequences for chronic hepatitis B and C virus infection at a tertiary care hospital in Delhi
| Autor: | V.K. Tiwari, T P Sherin Raj, P Balasundaram |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Total cost Hepatitis C virus India Disease medicine.disease_cause Virus Tertiary Care Centers Indirect costs Hepatitis B Chronic Cost of Illness medicine Humans viral hepatitis b health care economics and organizations catastrophic expenditure cost of treatment business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine lcsh:RA1-1270 General Medicine hepatitis c virus Tertiary care hospital medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Emergency medicine Cost of treatment Health Expenditures Viral hepatitis business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Public Health, Vol 64, Iss 4, Pp 409-412 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 0019-557X |
| Popis: | Patient living with chronic viral hepatitis in India faces the high cost of treatment and impoverishment. The present study is aimed to assess the cost of treatment and economic consequences among chronically infected viral hepatitis patients at a tertiary care hospital in Delhi. The descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken during October 2016–January 2017. Three hundred and eighty-nine participants were interviewed through a schedule for variables and assessing both direct and indirect costs. Costs of hospital expenditure were extracted from records available with patients or databases of the hospital. The average outpatient expenditure and the inpatient costs were calculated. Direct nonmedical costs were also included. The analysis revealed the total cost of treatment ranged from Rs. 16,600/-to Rs. 1,709,000/-with a median of Rs. 193,500 per year. The cost of treatment increased with the severity of the disease. The cost of treatment led to impoverishment in 52.8% of families and imposed a substantial economic burden and consequences on the patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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