Patient health expenditure for TB care in three models.

1 USD = 6.8 RMB, M = Median.* 29 patients of SL and 9 patients of SDC who were never treated in the TB dispensary, so they were excluded from the calculation of DOTS treatment expenditure. They were treated in the specialist hospital with a median treatment period of 209 days and the median health expenditure of RMB 11,985.†Significant difference was found among six sites (F = 19.859, P‡Significant difference was found among ix sites (F = 18.408, P§Significant difference was found among six sites (F = 3.7328, P = 0.011). ZD (P£ZD was significantly higher than SC (χ2 = 9.647, P = 0.002). SL was significantly higher than ZD (χ2 = 9.450, P = 0.002), GP (χ2 = 21.223, P2 = 32.918, P2 = 21.335, P2 = 12.391, P2 = 22.408, P2 = 12.432, P