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Research from E.N. Pritchett and co-authors yields new data on tuberculosis

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 21st, 2009

"The Philadelphia Department of Public Health Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program has a progressively severe, stepwise legal process for managing non-adherent TB patients, potentially culminating in incarceration. To review the application of legal procedures and to evaluate their effectiveness in the management of non-adherent TB patients," researchers in the United States report.

"We evaluated this process by reviewing patients' records from 2001 to 2005 to identify all non-adherent patients and determine their treatment outcomes. In this period, we initiated the legal process for 39 non-adherent patients. One patient died, and nine patients were lost. Twenty-nine...

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