Table 3.

Medical costs involved in the 2 therapies.

	Concomitant therapy (n = 145)		Tailored therapy (n = 145)
	Success	Fail	Success	Fail
Consultation fee	24	36	24	36
Endoscopy with sedation	254	254	254	254
Rapid urease test	23	23
DPO-PCR test			78	78
Concomitant therapy	79	79
Triple therapy			74	74
Bismuth quadruple therapy		81		81
Triple therapy with levofloxacin			46
Urea breath test	33	66	33	66
Average cost	334	379	389	434
Cost per 1 successful treatment*	424		468

All values are expressed in US dollars.

^*Cost included the first-line therapy and rescue therapy after failure of first-line treatment.

DPO-PCR = dual-priming oligonucleotide polymerase chain reaction.