Financial risk protection at the bedside: How Ethiopian physicians try to minimize out-of-pocket health expenditures

摘要

BackgroundOut-of-pocket health expenditures can pose major financial risks, create access-barriers and drive patients and families into poverty. Little is known about physicians’ role in financial protection of patients and families at the bedside in low-income settings and how they perceive their roles and duties when treating patients in a health care system requiring high out-of-pocket costs.