directly observed therapy

"But the reality is that it simply makes no sense in terms of our limited resources to force everyone to have directly observed therapy.

This is also the primary motivation behind directly observed therapy for tuberculosis.

For the first 2 months of treatment, directly observed therapy should be administered daily (intensive phase).

Others, like the far-reaching recommendation on directly observed therapy, would require legislative approval.

"At least several patients who everyone predicted they'd need detention became completely compliant with directly observed therapy," he said.

She said there was a need to expand directly observed therapy to follow up at least half of all tuberculosis patients, compared with 25 percent now.

This is called directly observed therapy (DOT) and may mean a daily office or home visit.

Such programs however, called directly observed therapy, have met with limited success in the past, and officials worry about what will happen if they fail, now, too.

In addition, some hospitals will be eligible for grants of up to $50,000 to set up services for directly observed therapy.

This will be done in hospitals, clinics and drug-treatment centers, and is known as "directly observed therapy."

Directly observed therapy - getting sick people to take their medication in front of health care workers to insure that they finished it - was chosen.

The latest treatment, used everywhere from New York to Tanzania, is called directly observed therapy, short-course.

This is called directly observed therapy (DOT), and it helps make sure that people take their medicines exactly as they are supposed to.

Therefore, directly observed therapy (DOT) usually is done.

Also, New York City expects to receive Federal funds to expand its own directly observed therapy program.

The most effective strategy for ensuring the completion of treatment is directly observed therapy (DOT), and its use must be expanded.

Far from castigating directly observed therapy for tuberculosis, I lament that it is too often eschewed in favor of imprisonment.

Directly observed therapy should be standard of care for children with TB (AII)

However, he refused to be drawn out on whether the company would insist upon the kind of directly observed therapy being recommended by the World Health Organization and others.

In fact, more than 1,000 patients participate in "directly observed therapy," in which health workers watch them swallow their pills either at clinics or at their homes.

The strategy has become widely known as DOTS, or Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course.

They can be trained to do specialized tasks such as provide sexually transmitted disease counseling, directly observed therapy for tuberculosis control, or act as trained birth attendants.

A goal of the panel is to create a single tier health system, and it sees the recommendation of directly observed therapy for all patients as an important step in that direction.

"The way it gets controlled is not by fancy new technologies but by emphasizing the basics of TB control: making sure that patients get treated, ideally under directly observed therapy."

As part of "directly observed therapy" (watching the patients take the medication), the bureau used a secret weapon to compel attendance: $5 coupons for hamburgers, fried chicken and snack foods.