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Table 4 participants’ answer to make informal payment in demand situation

From: At first glance, informal payments experience on track: why accept or refuse? Patients’ perceive in cardiac surgery department of public hospitals, northeast of Iran 2013

If there was a demand to have informal payment

N (%)

Motivation for paying informally in demand situation

N (%)

Refuse

130 (48.15)

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Accept

140 (51.85)

Patient’s health priority

140 (100)

  

Searching for other alternative solutions

57 (41)

  

Gratitude culture

38 (27.33)

  

Famous physician, better health care services

35 (25.17)

  

Reporting this demand to legal authorities

22 (15.82)

  

Physician’s right to ask for more money in treatment process

6 (4.31)

Total

270 (100)