Defining Catastrophic Costs and Comparing Their Importance for Adverse Tuberculosis Outcome with Multi-Drug Resistance: A Prospective Cohort Study, Peru

BACKGROUND: 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-affected households' hidden...

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Autores principales: Wingfield, Tom, Boccia, Delia, Tovar, Marco, Gavino, Arquímedes, Zevallos, Karine, Montoya, Rosario, Lönnroth, Knut, Evans, Carlton A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25025331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001675

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25025331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001675

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