Does watching patients take their TB drugs improve treatment cure and completion? Evidence Update, Tuberculosis Series, June 2006.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2006

• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Health

Abstract

Each Evidence Update is a 2-page summary of a Cochrane Review of healthcare interventions relevant to people in low-income and middle-income countries.

This Evidence Update is adapted from Volmink J, Garner P. Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD003343.pub2.

Cure and completion is similar whether patients are directly observed or take the treatment themselves.

Citation

Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, pp.2

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Does watching patients take their TB drugs improve treatment cure and completion? Evidence Update, Tuberculosis Series, June 2006.

Published 1 January 2006