TB Fast Track patient cost data

An anonymised dataset of 99 HIV-positive individuals enrolled in the TB FastTrack trial, a pragmatic, cluster randomised trial with 24 primary healthcare clinics randomised to implement algorithm-guided empirical TB treatment for ambulant HIV-positive adults who had a low CD4 count and were not yet on TB or HIV treatment (Fielding et al., 2015). Participants gave informed consent to participate in a study to understand the direct and indirect costs of illness incurred at the patient/household level. Interviews were conducted with patients between June 2014 and March 2015, at the health facility where they were receiving treatment in North West, Limpopo, and Gauteng provinces. Dataset contains details on quantity of visits, time spent in seeking care, direct medical and non-medical costs incurred, and individual and household income estimated through 4 different approaches: 1) self-reported (detail), 2) self-reported (brackets), 3) estimated via matching through an asset index, 4) national average income.