Figure 5.

The annual medical visits and costs of two management models. (A) Hospitalization frequency. (B) Outpatient visits. (C) Total medical costs. (D) Hospitalization costs. (E) Outpatient costs. (F) Transport costs. Hospitalization costs and visits only refer to PD related admissions in central hospital. Community do not have PD inpatient ward. Outpatient costs and visits refer to both community clinic and central hospital clinic. Transport costs refer to the costs only payed for commuting to central hospital. PD: peritoneal dialysis; FCH: Family-Community-Hospital; CNY: China Yuan. One dollar was equal to 6.7606 CNY (5 year average exchange rate, from 2016 to 2020).