Catastrophic health expenditures in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study

Zahra Gheinali ¹ , Esmaeil Moshiri ¹, Masoumeh Ebrahimi Tavani ², Mehdi Haghi ³, Farid Gharibi ¹ *

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