Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2016)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2203.151620
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 3
pp. 538 – 540

Abstract

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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.

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