Table 1.
Patient characteristics by referral pattern at the time of referral and dialysis initiation.
Figure 1.
Monthly medical costs before and after the initiation of dialysis.
The monthly medical costs are represented, comparing ‘early referral’ and ‘late referral’ according to the time period. The values (unit: US dollars) are expressed as the mean ± SEM. *P<0.05, ***P<0.001.
Table 2.
Medical costs during the first year before and after dialysis therapy.
Table 3.
Multivariate analysis for the medical costs during the first month after dialysis initiation.
Table 4.
Multivariate analysis for medical costs during the 1 year before dialysis initiation.