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dc.contributor.authorTissera, W.A. A
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-13T09:35:08Z
dc.date.available2011-12-13T09:35:08Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationMD ( Medical Administration)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://archive.cmb.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/70130/1434-
dc.description.abstractThis is a prospective, analytical intervention study carried out at the Colombo Chest Clinic with, New, sputum positive, pulmonary tuberculosis patients. The study was conducted over a period of one year commencing from May 2003. The standard Institutional-based Directly Observed Treatment (Dot) strategy was compared with a directly observed home-based strategy with a familymember serving as the DOT supervisor using a randomly selected sample of 17 patients in each group. This study demontrated that a home-based Directly Observed Treatment Strategy supervised by a family member proved to be better in improving compliance than the current health worker administered DOTS. The majority of treatment supervisors were either spouses of the patients
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dc.titleComparative evaluation of a modified directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) with standard WHO strategy.en_US
dc.typeResearch abstracten_US
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