Table 1.
Patients' demographic and clinical characteristics (n = 229).
Table 2.
Patients' socioeconomic characteristics (n = 229).
Figure 1.
Direct cost-burden analysis for Tuberculosis.
A patient care pathway analysis was used to estimate the extent, level and distribution of direct costs associated with TB (n = 229). By breaking down direct costs of the successive stages of the TB patient pathway in rural Burkina Faso, the figure highlights the gap between the national TB control strategy and the effective patient care pathway. Most patients accumulated medical and non-medical out-of-pocket expenses at every single stage of their care pathway. Moreover, it showed three kinds of delays which were respectively patient delay in the pre-diagnosis period, provider delay related to diagnosis, and treatment delay related to treatment initiation stage.