Tuberculosis Treatment Compliance Under Smartphone-Based Video-Observed Therapy Versus Community-Based Directly Observed Therapy: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
Ponlagrit Kumwichar,
Tagoon Prappre,
Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
Abstract:BACKGROUND
There are no recent studies comparing the compliance rates of both patients and observers in tuberculosis treatment between the video-observed therapy (VOT) and directly observed therapy (DOT) programs.
OBJECTIVE
This study aims to compare the average number of days that patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and their observers were compliant under VOT and DOT. In addition, this study… Show more
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