Adverse drug events resulting from use of drugs with sulphonamide-containing anti-malarials and artemisinin-based ingredients: findings on incidence and household costs from three districts with routine demographic surveillance systems in rural Tanzania

Table 4 Patient characteristics, care-seeking and type of payments: (Includes all probable and possible cases with complete cost information)

	Rufiji District	Kilombero/Ulanga Districts	Total
Number of cases with complete cost information	28	22	50
*Health outcomes on day of interview:*
Fully recovered	21	17	38
Partially-recovered	3	2	5
Patients died	4	3	7
*Patient characteristics:*
Female	17	13	30
Age under-five years	6	6	12
*Patient care-seeking sources:*
Public health facilities	19	12	31
Faith based/NGO facilities	6	8	14
Private drug shop outlets	2	1	3
Obtained drugs from family & neighbours	1	1	2
*Treatment expenditure pattern*
Patients with no expenses	11	2	13
Patients with one or multiple expenses	17	20	37
*Payment mechanisms for patients with treatment expenses N = 37*
Only cash that was to hand/past savings	10	13	23
Health insurance (community/employer)	1	2	3
Cash to hand and/or selling household assets or part of farm harvest	1	3	4
Borrowed from friends or relatives	5	2	7
*Report of any informal payments*
Made informal payments at the place of care	2	3	5

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