Time expenditure of nurses treating PD and patients’ test scores
PD
The mean time expenditure for dialysate exchange by nurses for the A-MPD group was 248.45 ± 6.20 min during the five days (including two manual fluid exchanges and connection and disconnection of cycler per day). The mean time expenditure in the MPD group was 256.86 ± 11.70 min/day (including four manual fluid exchanges per day). The time expenditure of nurses treating PD in the A-MPD group was significantly shorter than that in the MPD group (The time expenditure of PD nurses and test score of patients.The mean test scores of patients in the A-MPD and MPD groups were 183.63 ± 15.83 and 167.59 ± 20.32, respectively. Notably, patients’ test scores in the A-MPD group were significantly higher than those in the MPD group (