Hospitalized for poverty: orthopaedic discharge delays due to financial hardship in a tertiary hospital in Northern Tanzania

Table 4 Hospital bills and bed-days spent on D-Still patients (n = 72)

Description of data	Mean	Minimum	Maximum	Standard deviation
Extra days spent in hospital*	9	1	64	13
Total hospital bill	916,840 TSH	174,600 TSH	9,688,750 TSH	1,156,080 TSH
Total payment for Post-discharge period**	112,958 TSH	0***	1,960,000 TSH	254,442 TSH

*Represents the number of days spent in the hospital by D-Still patients following medical clearance for discharge
**These payments include coverage of hospital bed and food fees, medications administered daily, changing of dressings, and other elements of patient care allotted to all patients staying in the ward
***Patients who paid 0 TSH for this period were those that absconded from the ward without making any payments

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