Coverage of different health insurance programs and medical costs associated with chronic hepatitis C infection in mainland China: a cross-sectional survey in 20 provinces

Table 7 Outpatient antiviral therapy costs (in Renminbi)^a

	N	Mean	Standard deviation	Median	P25	P75
Pegylated interferon-alpha	197	37,968	22,182	37,400	17,550	59,424
Interferon-alpha	185	7256	6397	6798	2790	9877
Ribavirin	341	643	1055	377	172	660

^aThe amount attributed to each antiviral drug was for up to one year of treatment

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