CHAPTER IV - TREATMENT BEHAVIOUR OF TB PATIENTS <<Back
 
a) Treatment Failure & The Problem of Non Adherence
 
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AU : Banerji D, Bordia NL, Singh MM, Menon KG & Pande RV
TI : Panel discussion on treatment default: administrative, organizational and sociological considerations.
SO : Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Workers Conference, 22nd, Hyderabad, India, 3-6, 1967, p. 203-214.
DT : CP
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The panel discussion highlighted some basic administrative, organizational, technical and patient factors relevant to the problem of Treatment Default in the TB programme. In urban areas, the proper motivation of the patients, keeping of suitable records, prompt defaulter-action, adequate supply of drugs and the need to provide suitable facilities for patients coming from outside the clinic area, constituted the key administrative and organizational factors affecting treatment default. Regarding technical considerations, there was a need for a more precise definition of a case. It was pointed out that a large proportion of the patients were not really defaulters either because they were not cases of pulmonary TB at all or the patients took treatment from outside the clinic. Also, many so-called defaulters took the treatment after the expiry of the 12 months, while some were resistant to the treatment offered at the time of their first registration. In rural areas, the TB programme could only be strengthened with a concurrent strengthening of the over-all health administration.

KEYWORDS: DEFAULT; INDIA.
 
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