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

Monitoring Therapy Adherence 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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Main Authors: Alistair Story, Richard S. Garfein, Andrew Hayward, Valiantsin Rusovich, Andrei Dadu, Viorel Soltan, Alexandru Oprunenco, Kelly Collins, Rohit Sarin, Subhi Quraishi, Mukta Sharma, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Maithili Varadarajan, Dennis Falzon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Tuberculosis
medication adherence
videoconferencing
telemedicine
computer communication networks
directly observed therapy
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/3/15-1620_article

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