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Table 1 Characteristics of lawsuits filed against the State of Pernambuco and medications involved, 2016 and 2018

From: Profile of judicialization in access to antineoplastic drugs and their costs: a cross-sectional, descriptive study based on a set of all lawsuits filed between 2016 and 2018 in a state in the Northeast Region of Brazil

Characteristics

n (%)

Number of lawsuits

2,947

Sex

 Male

1,522 (51.7%)

 Female

1,425 (48.3%)

Origin

 Private

667 (23.4%)

 SUS

1,419 (49.8%)

 Philanthropic

762 (26.8%)

 Not available

97

Number of medications

 One

2,903 (98.5%)

 Two

33 (1.1%)

 Three or more

11 (0.4%)

Antineoplastic Drugs

 Yes

1,182 (41.4%)

 No

1,671 (58.6%)

 Not available

94