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Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis
Poor initiation and implementation and premature discontinuation of anti-tuberculous therapy, all forms of nonadherence, are major reasons for treatment failure, the development of drug-resistant tuberculosis, and transmission to other non-infected individuals. Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) has be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28946683 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101115 |
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author | Liu, Xiaoqiu Blaschke, Terrence Thomas, Bruce De Geest, Sabina Jiang, Shiwen Gao, Yongxin Li, Xinxu Buono, Elizabeth Whalley Buchanan, Stacy Zhang, Zhiying Huan, Shitong |
author_facet | Liu, Xiaoqiu Blaschke, Terrence Thomas, Bruce De Geest, Sabina Jiang, Shiwen Gao, Yongxin Li, Xinxu Buono, Elizabeth Whalley Buchanan, Stacy Zhang, Zhiying Huan, Shitong |
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description | Poor initiation and implementation and premature discontinuation of anti-tuberculous therapy, all forms of nonadherence, are major reasons for treatment failure, the development of drug-resistant tuberculosis, and transmission to other non-infected individuals. Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) has been the worldwide standard, but implementation of DOT is burdensome for providers and patients, especially in resource-limited settings, where most of the burden of active TB is located. Among the alternatives to DOT is electronic monitoring (EM) of drug dosing histories. Here we report a usability study of a newly-designed, modular electronic monitor product, called the MERM (Medication Event and Reminder Monitor), that is compatible with TB medication formats and supply chains in resource-limited settings. This study, done in a rural setting in China, showed that the use of the MERM for EM of TB medications was associated with a high degree of user performance, acceptability, and satisfaction among both TB patients and medical staff. Based on these data, EM is becoming the standard of care for drug-susceptible TB patients in China and scaled implementations in several other countries with high TB burden have begun. In addition, the MERM is being used in MDR-TB patients and in clinical trials involving patients with TB/HIV and latent TB. |
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spelling | pubmed-56646162017-11-06 Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis Liu, Xiaoqiu Blaschke, Terrence Thomas, Bruce De Geest, Sabina Jiang, Shiwen Gao, Yongxin Li, Xinxu Buono, Elizabeth Whalley Buchanan, Stacy Zhang, Zhiying Huan, Shitong Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Poor initiation and implementation and premature discontinuation of anti-tuberculous therapy, all forms of nonadherence, are major reasons for treatment failure, the development of drug-resistant tuberculosis, and transmission to other non-infected individuals. Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) has been the worldwide standard, but implementation of DOT is burdensome for providers and patients, especially in resource-limited settings, where most of the burden of active TB is located. Among the alternatives to DOT is electronic monitoring (EM) of drug dosing histories. Here we report a usability study of a newly-designed, modular electronic monitor product, called the MERM (Medication Event and Reminder Monitor), that is compatible with TB medication formats and supply chains in resource-limited settings. This study, done in a rural setting in China, showed that the use of the MERM for EM of TB medications was associated with a high degree of user performance, acceptability, and satisfaction among both TB patients and medical staff. Based on these data, EM is becoming the standard of care for drug-susceptible TB patients in China and scaled implementations in several other countries with high TB burden have begun. In addition, the MERM is being used in MDR-TB patients and in clinical trials involving patients with TB/HIV and latent TB. MDPI 2017-09-25 2017-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5664616/ /pubmed/28946683 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101115 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Xiaoqiu Blaschke, Terrence Thomas, Bruce De Geest, Sabina Jiang, Shiwen Gao, Yongxin Li, Xinxu Buono, Elizabeth Whalley Buchanan, Stacy Zhang, Zhiying Huan, Shitong Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title | Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title_full | Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title_fullStr | Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title_short | Usability of a Medication Event Reminder Monitor System (MERM) by Providers and Patients to Improve Adherence in the Management of Tuberculosis |
title_sort | usability of a medication event reminder monitor system (merm) by providers and patients to improve adherence in the management of tuberculosis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28946683 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101115 |
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