TY - JOUR AU - Story, Alistair AU - Garfein, Richard AU - Hayward, Andrew AU - Rusovich, Valiantsin AU - Dadu, Andrei AU - Soltan, Viorel AU - Oprunenco, Alexandru AU - Collins, Kelly AU - Sarin, Rohit AU - Quraishi, Subhi AU - Sharma, Mukta AU - Migliori, Giovanni Battista AU - Varadarajan, Maithili AU - Falzon, Dennis T1 - Monitoring Therapy Adherence of Tuberculosis Patients by using Video-Enabled Electronic Devices T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 538 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A recent innovation to help patients adhere to daily tuberculosis (TB) treatment over many months is video (or virtually) observed therapy (VOT). VOT is becoming increasingly feasible as mobile telephone applications and tablet computers become more widely available. Studies of the effectiveness of VOT in improving TB patient outcomes are being conducted. KW - Tuberculosis KW - medication adherence KW - videoconferencing KW - telemedicine KW - computer communication networks KW - directly observed therapy KW - short course KW - DOT KW - DOTS KW - video observed therapy KW - virtually observed therapy KW - VOT KW - individualized medicine KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2203.151620 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/3/15-1620_article ER - End of Reference