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Table 10 Direct medical costs and direct non-medical costs in 2020 USD per patient with GBS in a specialised hospital in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2020

From: Patient-related healthcare costs for diarrhoea, Guillain Barré syndrome and invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis in Gondar, Ethiopia, 2020

	Costs/patient (2020 USD)							N with costs > 0
Cost category	Mean	St. dev	Median	Minimum	Maximum	2.5%	97.5%	N with costs > 0
Direct medical costs
Stay costs^a	11.34	5.12	11.45	1.15	20.61	3.44	20.04	21
Special services costs	18.61	8.19	20.04	5.15	34.07	5.15	32.49	21
Diagnostic test costs	46.52	50.76	13.31	5.73	144.72	6.1	139.71	21
Other treatment costs	5.58	17.41	0	0	58.55	0	57.92	3
Drug costs	185.63	155.43	103.75	7.21	457.77	11.22	436.62	21
Total costs	267.70	185.53	208.06	33.13	590.69	50.19	590.31	21
Direct non-medical costs
Ambulance service costs	26.17	11.68	34.36	0.00	34.36	0.00	34.36	19

^aOnly out-of-pocket costs patients had to pay themselves for each day they stayed in a specialised hospital. These do not cover total costs for a hospital day

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