Requirement of social support to push tuberculosis patients below the 20% threshold of catastrophic cost (using the OA of indirect cost calculation)
Using the HCA, 893 study participants faced catastrophic cost. However, the graph was plotted considering 815 study participants as for 75 study participants, the difference in treatment cost after adjusting for 20% threshold was . INR 100 000; and for 3 participants, the proportion of treatment cost to pre-TB annual household income was > 200%; 1 US$ = INR 78.5344