High non-compliance rate with anti-tuberculosis treatment: a need to shift facility-based directly observed therapy short course (DOTS) to community mobile outreach team supervision in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem in many developing countries including Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Patient compliance with anti-tuberculosis treatment is a determining factor in controlling the spread of TB. This study compares the default rate and the p...

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Autores principales: AlSahafi, Abdullah Jaber, Shah, Hassan Bin Usman, AlSayali, Mashal Mesfer, Mandoura, Najlaa, Assiri, Mohammed, Almohammadi, Emad Lafi, Khalawi, Alaa, AlGarni, Abdullah, Filemban, Maimona Kamal, AlOtaibe, Adel Khaled, AlFaifi, Abdulaziz W. A., AlGarni, Fatima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31455324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7520-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31455324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7520-8

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