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Monitoring Therapy Adherence of Tuberculosis Patients by using Video-Enabled Electronic Devices - Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

Story, Alistair;
Garfein, Richard S;
Hayward, Andrew;
Rusovich, Valiantsin;
Dadu, Andrei;
Soltan, Viorel;
Oprunenco, Alexandru;
Collins, Kelly;
Sarin, Rohit;
Quraishi, Subhi;
Sharma, Mukta;
Migliori, Giovanni Battista;
Varadarajan, Maithili;
Falzon, Dennis

UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2016)

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.