directly observed therapy
Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
... Over the years DOT has come to mean much more than the supervised swallowing of drugs, causing considerable confusion. In the USA, DOT programmes are complex and consist of several components including social support, ...
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Family Based Tuberculosis Counseling Supports Directly Observed Therapy in Armenia: A Pilot Project
... [4]. Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) aimed to facilitate patients’ adherence to their treatment by scheduling the on-time medication intake, leading to reduction of the drug-resistance development ...
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Hospital-Based Directly Observed Therapy for HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents to Assess Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications
... In a child or adolescent not responding to HAART, nonadherence should be a major consideration. How- ever, the ability to recognize nonadherence is subopti- mal, and differentiating nonadherence from other causes of ...
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The Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course (DOTS) strategy in Samara Oblast, Russian Federation
... Organization Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) management strategy has become the internationally recommended approach for tuberculosis (TB) control programmes ...
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Rationale and design of mDOT-HuA study: a randomized trial to assess the effect of mobile-directly observed therapy on adherence to hydroxyurea in adults with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania
... mobile-directly observed therapy (mDOT) on adher- ence to HU (mDOT-HuA) study is an investigator- initiated, single centre, prospectively designed, randomized, open label phase 4 clinical ...
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Community based directly observed therapy (DOT) versus clinic DOT for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta analysis of comparative effectiveness
... Abbreviations CB DOT: Community-based directly observed therapy; CHW: Community health worker; CI: Confidence interval; CV: Community volunteer; DOT: Directly observed therapy; DR TB: Dr[r] ...
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Directly observed therapy (DOT) for the radical 14 day primaquine treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria on the Thai Myanmar border
... Directly-observed therapy (DOT) is an effective strat- egy to ensure patient adherence to long-term che- ...primaquine therapy in vivax malaria has not been studied thoroughly, particularly in ...
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People centered tuberculosis care versus standard directly observed therapy: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
... recommends directly observed therapy (DOT) to monitor patients’ adherence to the treatment regimen, with an optimal dosing frequency of 6 days per week for new TB ...being observed by a ...
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Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
... ’Directly observed therapy’ (DOT) is one component of a wider WHO strategy called ’Directly Observed Therapy Short course’ ...of therapy thereby eroding the gains made in ...
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Provider and patient perspectives on barriers to buprenorphine adherence and the acceptability of video directly observed therapy to enhance adherence
... Sometimes people say “I don’t feel like I’m getting the full effect of the medication, it takes forever to dis- solve.” And I’ll say, “Let’s do an observed dose. I want to see how you’re taking medication in case ...
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Assessment of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) following tuberculosis regimen change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
... Since the year 2004 WHO recommended all countries and settings to change their TB treatment from 8-month to 6-month with the shift of the continuation phase of the anti-TB regimen from Ethambutol and Isoniazid (EH) based ...
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Factors Influencing the Development of Urothelial Lesions and Breast Tuberculosis among Pulmonary TB Patients Undergoing Directly Observed Therapy in Abeokuta and Ilishan Metropolises, Ogun State, Nigeria
... were observed in low grade lesion while atypical decoy cells were seen in a case of high grade ...were observed in some low and high grade lesion samples suggests that polymavirus may influence the ...
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Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial of varenicline directly observed therapy delivered in methadone clinics
... to directly observed varenicline dispensed with daily methadone doses or treatment as usual (self-administered varenicline) for 12 ...clinic-based, directly observed varenicline for improving ...
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Interventions for improving adherence to treatment for latent tuberculosis infection: a systematic review
... For review question 3, data for five groups of interven- tions were extracted: 1. interventions with short treatment regimens; 2. interventions consisting of directly observed therapy (DOT); 3. ...
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Community led Responses for Elimination (CoRE): a study protocol for a community randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of community level, reactive focal drug administration for reducing Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence and incidence in Southern Province, Zambia
... DOCX 50 kb Abbreviations AL: Artemether-lumefantrine; CHW: Community health worker; DHA: Dihydroartemisinin; DHAP: Dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine; DOT: Directly observed therapy; HF[r] ...
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Lessons from Africa: developing a global human rights framework for tuberculosis control and prevention
... (Directly Observed Therapy – Short course is the WHO-approved treatment strategy for TB [28]) with containment (isola- tion g in health facilities or incarceration h ...
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Factors associated with mortality in patients with tuberculosis
... study observed a case-fatal- ity of 24% in sputum smear positive patients while on treatment ...of directly observed therapy (DOT), care from a physician inexperienced with TB manage- ment, ...
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Variable piperaquine exposure significantly impacts protective efficacy of monthly dihydroartemisinin piperaquine for the prevention of malaria in Ugandan children
... not directly observed, it is not possible to definitively distinguish between adherence versus PK distinctions in very young children as the cause for the variability of PQ drug ...receiving directly ...
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Cost effectiveness of point of care digital chest x ray in HIV patients with pulmonary mycobacterial infections in Nigeria
... clinics, directly observed therapy (DOT) clinics within, between and outside facilities to provide radiographic imaging services to patients for a variety of purposes including surveillance ...
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Clinical Correlates and Drug Resistance in HIV Infected and Uninfected Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in South India
... (Directly Observed Therapy Short Course) uptake, and drug resistance in a cohort of newly-diagnosed, smear positive pulmonary tuberculo- sis (TB) patients with respect to HIV status at baseline, and ...
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