Estimation of the costs of cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in rural Shanxi Province, China: a micro-costing study

Table 4 Direct non-medical costs of treatment cervical precancer/cancer

		Number of study subjects	Out-of-pocket expenses (US$)		Related time spent† (Days)		Total cost (US$)
			Median	Interquartile range	Median	Interquartile range	Median	Interquartile range
A. County level
	Cold-knife conization	14	34	15–38	18	7–46	83	34–164
	Simple hysterectomy	11	147	67–293	127	40–210	494	177–867
	Radical hysterectomy	5	53	34–94	60	28–276	217	110–807
B. Prefecture level
	Cold-knife conization	1	98	-	25	-	166	-
	Simple hysterectomy	19	146	79–234	53	32–109	291	167–532
	Radical hysterectomy	51	109	78–199	67	38–124	292	181–538
	Simple radiotherapy	7	110	75–706	52	42–161	252	189–1146

† Including self-reported women and their carer’s time in seeking/receiving care, and post-treatment recovery time at home; cost per woman in earnings loss was $2.73 per day.

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