Table 3. Direct medical costs imposed on the patients participated in the study (n = 384) .

Domain	Type of costs	Minimum		Maximum		Mean (standard deviation)
		IRR	USD	IRR	USD	IRR	USD
Diagnosing services	Laboratory services	0	0	30000000	714.28	1858300 (± 21222310)	44.24 (± 505.29)
	Radiology	0	0	1470000	35	10050 (± 107920)	0.24 (± 2.57)
	CT scan	0	0	1380000	32.85	107250 (± 199890)	2.55 (± 4.76)
	Other diagnosing costs	0	0	980000000	23333.33	6857150 (± 74381400)	163.26 (± 1770.98)
	Sum of diagnosing expenditures	0	0	981260000	23363.33	8798470 (± 77084110)	209.48 (± 1835.33)
Treatment services	Visiting general physician	0	0	1000000	23.80	114200 (± 1067900)	2.71 (± 25.42)
	Visiting specialist physician	0	0	9900000	235.71	452170 (± 1067900)	10.76 (± 25.42)
	Sum of visiting expenditures	0	0	10400000	247.61	566370 (± 1205220)	13.48 (± 28.69)
	Hospitalization services	0	0	250000000	5952.38	4520730 (± 19353590)	107.63 (± 460.79)
	Medication	0	0	380000000	9047.61	27585000 (± 41162380)	656.78 (± 980.05)
	Traditional treatments	0	0	5000000	119.04	119090 (± 547110)	2.83 (± 13.02)
	Treatment cares at home	0	0	23000000	547.61	565000 (± 2500910)	13.45 (± 59.54)
	Hemoperfusion	0	0	1300000000	30952.38	35025120 (± 170903340)	83393 (± 4069.12)
	Unofficial payments	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Sum of treatment services (apart from visits)	0	0	1680090000	40002.14	67639230 (± 200349660)	1610.45 (± 4770.23)
Sum of expenditures		0		1980090000	47145	77004080 (± 22819737)	1833.43 (± 543.32)