Evaluation of the Accuracy of 99DOTS, a Novel Cellphone-based Strategy for Monitoring Adherence to Tuberculosis Medications: Comparison of DigitalAdherence Data With Urine Isoniazid Testing.

Beena E Thomas J Vignesh Kumar M Chiranjeevi Daksha Shah Amit Khandewale Kannan Thiruvengadam Jessica E Haberer Kenneth H Mayer Ramnath Subbaraman

Clin Infect Dis

Department of Public Health and Community Medicine and Center for Global Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Published: December 2020

99DOTS is a cellphone-based strategy for monitoring tuberculosis medication adherence. In a sample of 597 Indian patients with tuberculosis, we compared 99DOTS' adherence assessments against results of urine isoniazid tests collected during unannounced home visits. 99DOTS had suboptimal accuracy for measuring adherence, partly due to poor patient engagement with 99DOTS.

Download full-text PDF	Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7713673	PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa333	DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

cellphone-based strategy

strategy monitoring

urine isoniazid

evaluation accuracy

99dots

accuracy 99dots

99dots novel

novel cellphone-based

adherence

monitoring adherence

Similar Publications

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!