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Table 4 Median and mean expenditure on medicine, by year

From: Out-of-pocket expenditures for primary health care in Tajikistan: a time-trend analysis

 

Expenditure on medicine

 

2005

2007

2008

2011

N total in sample

899

1935

1768

787

% with prescription

77.2

79.0

79.9

83.9

% with expenditure a

64.7

66.1

66.3

68.1

Mean US$(2011)

5.3

9.1

7.8

10.7

Mean US$(2011)

10.3

16.5

15.5

19.5

(95% CI)

(8.9 – 11.8)

(14.9 – 18.1)

(13.7 – 17.3)

(17.2 – 21.7)

  1. a % is the proportion of patients who reported expenditure on prescribed medicine. Kruskall-Wallis test of differences in median costs across years : χ2=117.34(3df), P<0.001.