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Table 8 Household burden of cumulative OOP payments to providers (formal and informal) from first symptoms to diagnosis (quartiles of cumulative payments divided by annual household income)

From: Patients’ pathways to cancer care in Tanzania: documenting and addressing social inequalities in reaching a cancer diagnosis

Bands of declared household monthly income

N

p25

Median

(p50)

p75

Up to 150,000

12

0.068

0.366

1.325

160,000 - 390,000

13

0.002

0.065

0.093

400,000 upwards

12

0

0.004

0.157

All respondents

a37

0.001

0.072

0.313

  1. anumber of patients able to recall 70% or more of payments per recorded event