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Out-of-pocket payment for surgery in Uganda: The rate of impoverishing and catastrophic expenditure at a government hospital

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: It is Ugandan governmental policy that all surgical care delivered at government hospitals in Uganda is to be provided to patients free of charge. In practice, however, frequent stock-outs and broken equipment require patients to pay for large portions of their care out of...

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Autores principales: Anderson, Geoffrey A., Ilcisin, Lenka, Kayima, Peter, Abesiga, Lenard, Portal Benitez, Noralis, Ngonzi, Joseph, Ronald, Mayanja, Shrime, Mark G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5663485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29088302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187293