The economic burden of inpatient paediatric care in Kenya: household and provider costs for treatment of pneumonia, malaria and meningitis

Table 5 Median monthly household expenditure and median user charge payments by household expenditure tertiles within different facility types

	National referral hospital	Secondary (provincial) referral	District hospitals	Missionary hospitals
Lower expenditure tertile
Number of households, n	28	16	58	26
Median household monthly expenditure (US$)	55.93	46.74	35.33	44.11
Median user charge payment (US$)	28.94	15.48	5.45	61.81
Median transport costs (US$)	6.38	2.99	1.86	3.99
Median preadmission cost (US$)	0.53	1.53	1.26	0.03
Median time costs (US$)	6.91	6.5	6.5	6.58
Middle expenditure tertile
Number of households, n	27	16	58	27
Median household monthly expenditure (US$)	96.80	73.76	69.12	96.35
Median user charge payment (US$)	41.33	17.88	6.25	53.16
Median transport costs (US$)	13.29	1.46	1.86	3.32
Median preadmission cost (US$)	2.69	2.75	0.70	0.93
Median time costs (US$)	7.00	8.25	5.29	6.00
Upper expenditure tertile
Number of households, n	27	16	58	24
Median household monthly expenditure (US$)	169.67	122.02	140.62	191.27
Median user charge payment (US$)	52.63	17.01	7.97	60.00
Median transport costs (US$)	10.10	1.59	2.26	6.51
Median preadmission cost (US$)	4.39	4.45	1.40	1.13
Median time costs (US$)	6.50	5.63	6.0	9.00

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