High non-compliance rate with anti-tuberculosis treatment: a need to shift facility-based directly observed therapy short course (DOTS) to community mobile outreach team supervision in Saudi Arabia

Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem in many developing countries including Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Patient compliance with anti-tuberculosis treatment is a determining factor in controlling the spread of TB. This study compares the default rate a...

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Main Authors: Abdullah Jaber AlSahafi (Author), Hassan Bin Usman Shah (Author), Mashal Mesfer AlSayali (Author), Najlaa Mandoura (Author), Mohammed Assiri (Author), Emad Lafi Almohammadi (Author), Alaa Khalawi (Author), Abdullah AlGarni (Author), Maimona Kamal Filemban (Author), Adel Khaled AlOtaibe (Author), Abdulaziz W. A. AlFaifi (Author), Fatima AlGarni (Author)
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Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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