Catastrophic Costs among Tuberculosis-Affected Households in Egypt: Magnitude, Cost Drivers, and Coping Strategies.

Despite national programs covering the cost of treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in many countries, TB patients still face substantial costs. The end TB strategy, set by the World Health Organization (WHO), calls for "zero" TB households to be affected by catastrophic payments by 2025. This study aimed to measure the catastrophic healthcare payments among TB patients in Egypt, to determine its cost drivers and determinants and to describe the coping strategies.

Governance structures and practices in for-profit and not-for profit hospitals in Egypt.

Background: Governance is a system that ensures and promotes accountability and responsibility toward stakeholders. The present study aims to compare the governance structures and practices in for-profit and non-for profit hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt.

Methods: The study is a descriptive cross sectional study in which Chief Executive officers (CEOs) in all hospitals in Alexandria Governorate were interviewed.

Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions at health insurance organization hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt.

This study aimed at estimating the percentage of hospital discharges and days of care accounted for by Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs) at Health Insurance Organization (HIO) hospitals in Alexandria, calculating hospitalization rates for ACSCs among HIO population and identifying determinants of hospitalization for those conditions. A sample of 8300 medical records of patients discharged from three hospitals affiliated to HIO at Alexandria was reviewed. The rate of monthly discharges for ACSCs was estimated on the basis of counting number of combined ACSCs detected in the three hospitals and the hospitals' average monthly discharges.

Patients' views on the quality of transitional care at a health insurance hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.

Background: Persons with continuous complex care frequently require care in multiple settings. During transitions between settings, there is evidence that the quality of care is jeopardized for these patients.

Objectives: The present study aims to measure the quality of transitional care at one of the Health Insurance Hospitals in Alexandria using the Care Transition Measure (CTM) and to explore the association between the quality of care transition and patients' characteristics.

Responsiveness of the health insurance and private systems in Alexandria, Egypt.

Background: Responsiveness to patients is a key indicator for measuring the health system performance with respect to nonhealth aspects. This study aimed to compare responsiveness of the Health Insurance Organization (HIO) with the private healthcare system and also to assess the importance of the different responsiveness domains according to the study population's perspective.

Participants And Methods: Patients attending both inpatient and outpatient settings of both organizations were interviewed (200 outpatients and 200 inpatients from each selected hospital) using the WHO questionnaire.