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Volume 5, Number 6—December 1999
Research

Using Automated Pharmacy Records to Assess the Management of Tuberculosis

Girish S. Subramanyan*, Deborah S. Yokoe*Comments to Author , Sharon Sharnprapai†, Edward Nardell†, Eugene McCray‡, and Richard Platt*
Author affiliations: *Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Figure 1

Pharmacy dispensing profiles of tuberculosis (TB) cases treated in the health maintenance organization (HMO) and outside the HMO. Standard regimen (percentage) and duration of dispensing of antituberculosis medication dispensed for TB cases. A cutoff value of >70 days of medication dispensed from HMO-reimbursed pharmacies, as assessed from automated pharmacy records, differentiated HMO-treated cases from cases at least partially treated outside the HMO.

Figure 1. Pharmacy dispensing profiles of tuberculosis (TB) cases treated in the health maintenance organization (HMO) and outside the HMO. Standard regimen (percentage) and duration of dispensing of antituberculosis medication dispensed for TB cases. A cutoff value of >70 days of medication dispensed from HMO-reimbursed pharmacies, as assessed from automated pharmacy records, differentiated HMO-treated cases from cases at least partially treated outside the HMO.

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