Implementing a directly observed therapy program in an urban community hospital.

J Public Health Manag Pract

Spellman Center for HIV-Related Disease, St. Clare's Hospital, New York, New York, USA.

Published: October 1998

St. Clare's Health and Hospital Center has implemented a directly observed therapy (DOT) program for a challenging urban population of largely HIV+ patients in response to a need for the prevention of the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the population. Identified treatment barriers are needs of patient subgroups within the population. Issues in the implementation include: patient compliance, effectiveness of patient identification and follow-up, and continuity of care. Challenges to continuity of care include patients signing out of the hospital against medical advice and missed clinic appointments. Patient identification and follow-up is enhanced by coordinating DOT treatment with the methadone maintenance treatment program.

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