Table 1

Approaches to gathering household cost data in the setting of cancer and/or palliative care

First author, country, yearQualitativeSelf-designed questionnaireSelf-designed questionnaire: tool details providedQuestionnaire informed by qualitative designCost diaries12 months recall of direct costsModelling from national census dataWHO health survey questionnaire
Wang, China, 2015       ✓
Gardiner, UK, 2017    ✓   
Ratcliff, India, 2017  ✓      
ACTION study group, SE Asia, 2015     ✓   
Israels, Malawi, 2008 ✓       
Bhojani, India, 2012   ✓     
Chuma, Kenya, 2007    ✓    
Emanuel, India, 2010  ✓      
Hamid, Bangladesh, 2014      ✓  
Kavosi, Iran, 2014       ✓
Zaidi, Pakistan, 2012   ✓     
Chen, China 2018  ✓      
Hailu, Ethiopia, 2013   ✓     
Bennett, New Zealand 2009  ✓      
Arrossi, Argentina, 2007  ✓