Improving Patient Compliance in Tuberculosis Treatment Programs (Revised).

摘要

In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of, and concern about, the problem of noncompliance with prescribed antituberculosis chemotherapy. The booklet provides a brief overview of what is known about patient compliance and offers suggestions for detecting and dealing with noncompliant behavior as it relates to treatment of tuberculosis and preventive therapy for tuberculous infection. The 1989 revision includes more details about the concepts of behavioral diagnosis, directly observed therapy (DOT), and compliance incentives, than previous versions, and the Appendix has been revised to incorporate instructions for performing the convenient INH test strip method for testing urine for isoniazid and its metabolites.