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Table 1 Summary of data collection procedure

From: Economic evaluation of the practical approach to lung health and informal provider interventions for improving the detection of tuberculosis and chronic airways disease at primary care level in Malawi: study protocol for cost-effectiveness analysis

Type of cost

When

Where

How

How many

Intervention

Ongoing-from the inception to the end of project

REACH TRUST and LSTM

Project budget and expenditure records

All data available

Healthcare service

Ongoing-from the inception to the end of project

Health centres in the intervention arms

Health centre budget and government documents

18 health centres

Patient

At baseline and at the end of project

Patient home or convenient location

Patient cost questionnaires administered at the begin and end of project

135 at baseline, sample size at endline dependent on baseline results