Monitoring Therapy Compliance of Tuberculosis Patients by using Video-Enabled Electronic Devices

A recent innovation to help patients adhere to daily tuberculosis (TB) treatment over many months is video (or virtually) observed therapy (VOT). VOT is becoming increasingly feasible as mobile telephone applications and tablet computers become more widely available. Studies of the effectiveness of...

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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2016-03, Vol.22 (3), p.538-540
Main Authors: Story, Alistair, Garfein, Richard S, Hayward, Andrew, Rusovich, Valiantsin, Dadu, Andrei, Soltan, Viorel, Oprunenco, Alexandru, Collins, Kelly, Sarin, Rohit, Quraishi, Subhi, Sharma, Mukta, Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Varadarajan, Maithili, Falzon, Dennis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use
Directly Observed Therapy - methods
Humans
Patient Compliance
Smartphone
Tuberculosis - drug therapy
Webcasts as Topic
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Summary:A recent innovation to help patients adhere to daily tuberculosis (TB) treatment over many months is video (or virtually) observed therapy (VOT). VOT is becoming increasingly feasible as mobile telephone applications and tablet computers become more widely available. Studies of the effectiveness of VOT in improving TB patient outcomes are being conducted.
ISSN:1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2203.151620