Defining catastrophic costs and comparing their importance for adverse tuberculosis outcome with multi-drug resistance: a prospective cohort study, Peru.

<h4>Background</h4>Even when tuberculosis (TB) treatment is free, hidden costs incurred by patients and their households (TB-affected households) may worsen poverty and health. Extreme TB-associated costs have been termed "catastrophic" but are poorly defined. We studied TB-aff...

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Main Authors: Tom Wingfield, Delia Boccia, Marco Tovar, Arquímedes Gavino, Karine Zevallos, Rosario Montoya, Knut Lönnroth, Carlton A Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001675
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