Table 7 Studies reporting relationship between charging and adherence

Survey

National TB epidemiological survey 2002¹⁷

45% (121/272) of patients having interrupted or suspended treatment due to financial difficulty

Zhang 2007¹²

9% of households with TB suspects (2308) or patients defaulted due to financial burden

Xu 2009²⁰

16% (13/82) of non-adherence patients interrupted treatment because of high medical costs of the treatment

Ai 2010²²

2% of patients who interrupted treatment (43) because of financial difficulty

Cohort

Jackson 2006¹¹

3% (5/159) was too poor to begin treatment

Sun 2007²³

Patients who were charged high medical cost were more likely to interrupt treatment than patients having lower medical costs